Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2460Location: BostonDate / Time: June 07, 2009 11:00AM
Description:
Miniature Triple-Decker Shelf Clock by Forestville Manufacturing Company,Bristol, Connecticut,with basket of fruit splat, grained and gilded half-columns flanking both doors, reverse-painted tablets depicting classical architecture, 8 1/2 in. painted zinc dial, printed maker's label on backboard, thirty-hour time and strike weight-powered movement with countwheel, recoil escapement, and two cast iron weights, ht. 30 in.
Estimate $2,000-4,000
Replacement crest, plinths, feet, and top reverse painted glass, touch-up around winding holes on dial, lower painted glass is the original.