AMER AUGUST 2015
The live portion of this session begins on Monday, August 24, 2015.
MAINE GRAIN-PAINTED TALL CASE CLOCK WITH EIGHT-DAY MOVEMENT. Circa 1800. A New England grainpainted clock with a rare eight-day time-and-strike brass movement. The country Roxbury type case has a bonnet which features a pierced fret, fluted plinths, and turned wood finials, above an arched door with free standing fluted columns with brass bases and capitals at the front. The bonnet has oval inspection lights on the sides, a feature associated exclusively with more expensive brass eight-day movements. The waisted case with rectangular pendulum door has engaged fluted quarter columns with brass bases and capitals. The lower case has a well-proportioned box and applied Chippendale bracket feet with integrated molding. The front profile of the bracket is different than the side profile, a feature of a southern Maine maker (unknown) who made these cases and movements. The cases were made of butternut and generally grain painted in this black and red fanciful decoration. Sand filled tin can weights are present, and the original pendulum. Winding key and pendulum door key are not present. SIZE: 91-1/2" h x 21" w x 9-3/4" d. CONDITION: Very good original condition. 49274-11 (2,000-4,000) DH0