HL CHALFANT: American Fine Art & Antiques
 
 
Early Oak Queen Anne Flat-Top Tall Clock
 
Early Oak Queen Anne Flat-Top Tall Clock
 
Tall clock with prominent cornice molding and silvered chapter ring. Ring engraved with fleur-de-lis and “John Talor, Bulkinton”. Waist with round glass in the door. Base with small suppressed-ball feet. Thirty-hour movement. England, c. 1720.
Maker: John Talor, Bulkinton
Origin: England
Date: c. 1720
Dimensions: Height 75.25” x Width 12” x Depth 6.375”
Price: $6,500
 
Painted Chippendale Tall-case Clock
 
Painted Tall-case Clock
 
Clock with broken-scroll pediment, three urn finials, enameled dial, fluted quarter-columns at the waist and base that has a wonderfully applied molding surrounding raised flower petals in the center and ogee bracket feet.
Origin: Reading, PA
Date: c. 1750
Dimensions: Width 19.125", Height 7'9", Depth 11.625"
Price: $54,000
 
Very Rare Walnut Chippendale Tall Case Clock
 
Very Rare Walnut Chippendale Tall Case Clock
 
Perhaps the most striking aspect of this clock is the ornate engraving found on the face. A profile of General James Wolfe sits over moon and stars, a rooster, tent encampments and fauna that surround the dial. The face is encased in an elegant walnut case with a finial, rosettes, a scalloped panel in the base and ogee feet.
Maker: George Miller (Germantown, PA)
Origin: Philadelphia, PA
Date: c. 1770
Dimensions: Width 19.5", Height 98.75", Depth 10.75"
Price: POR
 
Walnut Queen Anne Tall Case Clock
 
Walnut Queen Anne Tall Case Clock
 
From the unusual Willistown cabinet maker Isaac Thomas, comes a tall case clock with exceptional features. Three flame and turned finials sit upon a sarcophagus top with a pierced fret. The brass 8-day movement is signed “Isaac Thomas, Willistown”. The is a bolection molding under the hood, an arched door, a molded base, bracket feet and a center drop.
Maker: Isaac Thomas (Willistown, PA)
Origin: Chester County, PA
Date: 1750-60
Dimensions: Width 17.5", Height 95", Depth 10"
Price: $48,000
 
Rare Mahogany Inlaid Hepplewhite Clock
 
Rare Mahogany Hepplewhite Tall Case Clock
 
A wonderfully inlaid tall case clock with a scroll top and turned finials, an inlaid Baltimore oriole flanked by vines and leaves. There is a painted dial with eight-day movement. The waist door has cantered inlaid corners with an inlaid door and eagle. There is continued inlay in the base with original French feet.
Origin: Pennsylvania or Maryland
Date: 1800
Dimensions: Width 19", Height 97.75", Depth 9.5"
Price: $38,500
 
Benjamin Morris Walnut Chippendale Tall Case Clock
 
Walnut Chippendale Tall Case Clock
 
Made by clockmaker Benjamin Morris, this clock has a scroll top with inlaid rosettes, and turned finials on top. It has a scalloped door, fluted corner columns and panel on the base. The clock has ogee feet. The works have a painted calendar dial and an 8-day movement.
Maker: Benjamin Morris (Hilltown, PA)
Origin: Hilltown, PA
Date: 1780
Dimensions: Width 19", Height 93.5", Depth 11"
Price: $28,500
 
Rare 30 Day Queen Anne Marquetry Clock
 
Rare 30 Day Queen Anne Marquetry Clock
 
Arched bonnet with pierced fret and side windows, fluted pilasters, brass dial with moon phase.  Signed “Jacob Hasius” Amsterdam.  Marquetry inlay throughout.  Glass bulls-eye in door with a bombe' base.
Maker: Jacob Hassius (Amsterdam)
Origin: Dutch
Date: 1730
Dimensions: Width 24" (at base), Height 89", Depth 24" (at base)
Price: $19,500
 
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