Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
Description:
New Hampshire Grain-painted Tall Clock, c. 1810, arch-top hood with freestanding columns flanking the Roman numeral painted iron dial with floral spandrels and a bird in the arch, seconds bit and calendar aperture, molded waist door with brass-mounted quarter-columns, all resting on high straight French feet, eight-day time and hour strike movement with half-moon cutouts on plates and false plate reading Osborne's Manufactory Birmingham, regulated by a brass-faced pendulum and powered by two cast iron weights, ht. 85 in.
Provenance: Sotheby's, June 17th and 18th 1997, Lot 667.
Estimate $1,500-2,500
paint decoration in very nice condition, small losses to crest, minute hand broken
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Jonathan Dowling
Director, Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
508-970-3131
Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
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