A distinctive clock with broken swan neck pediments and pinwheel rosettes with a pinwheel pediment at the center. There are urn finials upon a molded base at the left, center and right of the bonnet. The bonnet has columns flanking a glass door with a white painted dial with paint decorated fruit and flowers. It is signed "Jonas Alrichs, Wilmington". The clock's...
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Designed by George Nelson Associates for the Howard Miller Clock Company in 1952, this quintessential mid modern clock is one of the most sought after designs of Nelsons clocks produced between 1948 and 1960. Signed with decal manufacturer’s label to reverse: [Howard Miller Clock Company, Zeeland Michigan, Chronopak] with impressed model number [2201].
Only a handful examples exist of architectural built-in elements such as this one. A 30-hour clock placed in the recess of a wall with an applied panel, paint decorated as a tall case clock with the facade of a bonnet with painted dial this clock is an excellent example of painted furniture folk art.
Retaining its original fretwork and brass finials, this elegant tall case clock displays a dial inscribed “AARON WILLARD” and his label engraved by Paul Revere attached to the inside of the waist door with instructions on how to wind it. It is of rare small size and features and eight-day movement housed in a case of figured mahogany ornamented with pierced fretwork, brass finials...
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”. There is a bolection molding under the hood, an arched door, a molded base, bracket feet and a center drop.
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.
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.
This is an exceptionally rare walnut Chippendale 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 has been for at least three generations.
The carving on this clock is well balanced, nothing is superflous, a trait of the highly sought after Garvan Carver. It has a cartouche which stands on...
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 roster, 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.
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.
