قراءة كتاب Chats on Old Clocks
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extended to me his courtesy in enabling the inclusion of Irish makers coming under his research. To Arthur Deane, Esq., of the Public Art Gallery and Museum, Belfast, I am similarly obliged for data relative to old Belfast clockmakers.
To the many friends who have during an extended period generously supplemented my own studies by supplying me with data in regard to provincial makers and other hitherto unelucidated matters, I wish to offer my cordial thanks.
To my readers in general, whether they be collectors of old English china or earthenware, of furniture, or of prints, or of old silver, I desire to record my appreciation of their kindness in regard to my volumes on these subjects. I have honestly endeavoured to treat each sub-head concerning the evolution of design in the English home with sane reasoning, and I trust with ripe judgment. I have assiduously collected facts and studiously attempted to marshal them, each by each, according to relative value. Popular my volumes may be, but it is my hope that they may contribute something of permanent value to the subjects with which they deal.
ARTHUR HAYDEN.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| PREFACE | 11 |
| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 21 |
| CHAPTER I | |
| INTRODUCTORY NOTE | 27 |
| Time and its measurement—Day and night—Early mechanism—The domestic clock—The personal clock—Rapid phases of invention—The dawn of science—The great English masters of clockmaking—The several branches of a great art—What to value and what to collect—Hints for beginners | |
| CHAPTER II | |
| THE BRASS LANTERN CLOCK | 45 |
| The domestic clock—Its use as a bracket or wall clock—Seventeenth-century types—Continuance of manufacture in provinces—Their appeal to the collector | |
| CHAPTER III | |
| THE LONG-CASE CLOCK—THE PERIOD OF VENEER AND MARQUETRY | 67 |
| What is veneer?—What is marquetry?—The use of veneer and marquetry on long-case clocks—No common origin of design—Le style réfugié—Derivative nature of marquetry clock-cases—The wall-paper period—The incongruities of marquetry | |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| THE LONG-CASE CLOCK—THE PERIOD OF LACQUER | 105 |
| What is lac?—Its early introduction into this country—"The Chinese taste"—Colour versus form—Peculiarities of the lacquered clock-case—The English school—English amateur imitators—Painted furniture not lacquered work—The inn clock | |
| CHAPTER V | |
| THE LONG-CASE CLOCK—THE GEORGIAN PERIOD | 131 |
| The stability of the "grandfather" clock—The burr-walnut period—Thomas Chippendale—The mahogany period—Innovations of form—The Sheraton style—Marquetry again employed in decoration | |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| THE EVOLUTION OF THE LONG-CASE CLOCK | 153 |
| Its inception—Its Dutch origin—The changing forms of the hood, the waist, and the base—The dial and its character—The ornamentation of the spandrel—The evolution of the hands | |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| THE BRACKET CLOCK | 179 |
| The term "bracket clock" a misnomer—The great series of English table or mantel clocks—The evolution of styles—Their competition with French elaboration | |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| PROVINCIAL CLOCKS | 211 |
| Their character—Names of clockmakers found on clocks in the provinces—The North of England: Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Yorkshire clockmakers: Halifax and the district—Liverpool and the district—The Midlands—The Home Counties—The West Country—Miscellaneous makers | |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| SCOTTISH AND IRISH CLOCKS | 255 |
| David Ramsay, Clockmaker Extraordinary to James I—Some early "knokmakers"—List of eighteenth-century Scottish makers—Character of Scottish clocks—Irish clockmakers: Dublin, Belfast, Cork—List of Irish clockmakers | |
| CHAPTER X | |
| A FEW NOTES ON WATCHES | 281 |
| The age of Elizabeth—Early Stuart watches—Cromwellian period—Watches of the Restoration—The William and Mary watch—Eighteenth-century watches—Pinchbeck and the toy period—Battersea enamel and shagreen | |
| INDEX | 295 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
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