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Brass French Mantle Clock
 
Brass French Mantle Clock
 
Brass mantle clock with elaborate gilt bronze case and white enameled dial. Case with mythological figures “Leda and the Swan” at the top. Other figures, animals and cherubs below. The dial is signed, “Pingeon á Paris”.
Origin: France
Date: c. 1830
Dimensions: Height 21” x Width 18” x Depth 6”
Price: $2,850
 
Ebonized Quarter-Striking Bracket Clock
 
Ebonized Quarter-Striking Bracket Clock
 
This clock has a sarcophagus top with brass handle, acorn finials, strike-silent brass dial and fusee movement. Quarter-striking clocks play a tune every hour. Made by Henry Lyon, London.
Origin: London, England
Date: 1760
Dimensions: Width 10.625", Height 20"
Price: $12,500
 
Rare 30 Hour Brass Lantern Clock
 
Rare 30 Hour Brass Lantern Clock
 
This desirable lantern clock is signed "Nicholis Coxeter at ye Loftbury Londini fecit." Nicholis Coxeter b. 1638, act. 1638-77, was apprenticed to John Peenock. It was not until 1660 that his workshop began to produce clocks in large numbers.
Origin: London, England
Date: 1660-1677
Dimensions: Width 6.25", Height 15.75", Depth 6.25"
Price: $8,000
 
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.
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.
Origin: Pennsylvania or Maryland
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
 
Philadelphia Tall Case Clock
 
Earliest Known Garvan Carver Tall Case Clock
 
This is an exceptionally rare clock we are offering. Less than five have been offered publicly with the original cartouche. We acquired this clock from a private party where it had been for at least three generations. Learn more >
Origin: Philadelphia, PA
Date: 1750-5
Dimensions: Width 20", Height 105", Depth 10"
Price: POR
 
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.
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.  Ball feet are replaced.
Origin: Dutch
Date: 1730
Dimensions: Width 24" (at base), Height 89", Depth 24" (at base)
Price: $19,500
 
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