Painted Cherry Tall Clock with Automaton

Description:

Painted Cherry Tall Clock with Automaton, Pennsylvania, c. 1825, scroll top with turned wooden finials, spool-turned columns flanking the arched and glazed hood door, chamfered corners on the waist, rectangular door with applied chip-carved fan, the base with fan and spoon carving, chamfered corners and bracket feet, 12 1/2 in. painted wooden dial with Roman numerals and dual doors in the arch which open to present a bowing hand-painted cuckoo with moving beak and wings activated on the hour and sounded with bellows, eight-day time and strike wooden movement with count wheel strike, two weights and pendulum, ht. 95 in.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

missing strike arbor to activate the automaton, horizontal sectional poplar backboard ends at hood section, weights and pendulum are replacements; case retains original components and surface.

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