Clockmakers' Company, 1704, transactions of, quoted, 36
On fabrications of English work, 36
Clockmakers, the great English, 35
English, full list of, 37
Clockmaking, decadence of, 38
Personality in, 38, 39
Collecting period, the, 38
Collectors, hints for, foibles of, 39, 41
Colour _versus_ form, 110
Cookworthy, William, his true porcelain at Plymouth, 109
Copper tokens of clockmakers illustrated, 218, 236
Cork, clocks and clockmakers at, 289
Cornwall clockmakers, list of, 241
Country marquetry, 60
Cromwellian "plum" watch illustrated, 283
Cumming, Alexander, clock by (1770), 203
Day and night, 27, 29
Day, the, its division into hours, 28
Lunar, 29
Mean solar, 28
Delft, Dutch, ornamentation of, used in marquetry, 98
Devon and Cornwall clockmakers, list of, 241
Dial, the--
Brass, with silvered hour circle and engraved figures, 158
Character of, 157
Correct proportions of the, 165
Early form of, 30
Evolution of, 162, 165
Iron painted ornament and figures, 158
Position of maker's name on, 158, 161
Dickens, _Dombey and Son_ quoted, 31
Domestic clock, the, 33
Draper, John (1703), dial of clock by, 158
Dublin clocks and clockmakers, 272
National Museum, examples at, illustrated, 269, 273
Dutch clock panels imported, 97
Delft ware, its imitation of porcelain, 111
Fabrications of noted English makers, 36
Influence on cabinet-maker, 67
Influence on clockmaker, 217, 271
Origin of long-case clock, 154
Ornament found on clocks--
Cupids and crown, 170
Marquetry panels, 92
Phases of moon, 217
Spandrel with Seasons, 271
Dutton, Matthew, 37
Thomas, 37
William, 37
Earnshaw, Thomas (1750), 37, 212
East Anglian clockmakers, list of, 247
East, Edward, 37
East India Company, the Dutch, 107
The English, 109
Ebsworth, John, 37
Edict of Nantes and its effect, 68, 90, 120
Edinburgh clocks and clockmakers, 261-265
Eighteenth century, best period of clockmaking in, 40
Elizabethan watch illustrated, 289
Ellicott, John (Bodmin), 212
English masters of clockmaking, the great, 35
School of lacquered work, 114
Equation of time, 29
Evelyn, _Diary_ of, quoted (1681), 107
Evolution of the English mantel clock, 186
Evolution of long-case clock, 153
Base, its changing form, 155
Dial, its character, 157
Hands, their differing types, 174
Spandrel, its ornamentation, 166
Waist, its varying proportion, 155
Exeter clockmakers, list of, 241
Fleur-de-lis ornament on dial, 174
Foreign craftsmen working in England--
Dutch marquetry workers, 83, 92
French Huguenot cabinet-makers, 69, 90
Italian glassworkers, 69
Form, changing, of hood, waist, and base, 155
Innovations of, in clock-cases, 141
_versus_ colour, 111
French clocks and their influence, 147, 197, 278
Influence on mantel clocks, 197
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