Old clocks and watches & their makers, being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad, to which is added a list of ten thousand makers (1904)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 522
tion. Towards the end of the eighteenth century the popularity of the bell-top case waned, and it was gradually supplanted by threeset patterns, the broken arch, the balloon, and the lancet. The Proi^rcssioii of Eii^tj^lisli Doiiicslic Clocks. 507 Tlie broken arch was not, as mi^dit be supposed, a… … Fig. 671. two short straight bands. This seems to ha\e been taken fromChippendales bracket cases, as in Figs. 648, 649, 650, 651, all ofwhich have circular pediments of this kind, but the ornamentalsuperstructure as suggested by Chippendale was not adopted. Whatis generally accepted as a broken…
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