Paint-decorated Pine Tall Clock

Description:

Paint-decorated Pine Tall Clock, Riley Whiting, Winchester, Connecticut, early 19th century, the hood with molded swan's neck cresting above a tombstone opening revealing a white-painted and polychrome wooden dial with flowers in the arch and spandrels, on the molded waist and cutout base, original painted decoration in ochre and red, the base centering a spreadwing eagle, ht. 88 3/4 in.

Provenance: David Weatcroft, Westborough, Massachusetts.
Estimate $15,000-25,000


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