Paint-decorated Pine Tall Case Clock

Description:

Paint-decorated Pine Tall Case Clock, Maine, possibly South Paris, c. 1830, the hood with flat cornice and tombstone-shaped door reveals the white-painted, polychrome floral-painted and gilt wooden dial, wooden thirty-hour movement, original decoration of burnt sienna and ochre graining highlighted by yellow and green-painted borders centering flowers, all on cutout base, ht. 79 in.

Provenance: Paul and Cheryl Scott; The Estate of Julie and Sandy Palley; Walters-Benisek, purchased in 2003.

Note: A weaver's chair painted by the same decorator was sold to a private collector by Jan Whitlock.
Estimate $25,000-35,000

an owner at some point added a broken arch cornice, which is now removed. Upon examination, it is clear that the clock originally had no such cornice.


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