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Rare American Chippendale Musical Tall Case Clock
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Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1780, with painted and silvered brass dial inscribed "Highwater at Boston, North America", seven tunes, seconds sweep, date indicator, set in an early "Roxbury" mahogany case with pierced fretwork and brass finials, over blind fretwork frieze, with three weights and pendulum, 103-1/2 x 23 x 10-1/2 in.
Provenance: Sold Pook & Pook, January 6, 2007 lot 689 for $23,000; Collection of C.L. Prickett
Rare New Jersey Chippendale Cherry Tall Case Clock
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brass and silvered dial inscribed "Isaac Brokaw" (Elizabethtown or Bridgetown, New Jersey, 1770-1785), eight day brass movement, moon phase, calendar dial, seconds sweep, set in a waisted case with broken arch pediment with carved rosettes and finials, dentil moldings, fluted quarter columns, paneled and scalloped base with ogee bracket feet, winder, pendulum, and two weights present, 93-1/2 x 22 x 10-3/4 in.
Note: Exhibited: American Masterpieces: Tall Case Clocks of the 18th Century, October 26, 1995 – March 30, 1996, Watch and Clock Museum of the National Watch and Clock Collectors, Columbia, Pennsylvania.
Illustrated in American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 3, pg. 768, and in Timeless: Masterpiece Brass Dial Clocks by Frank L. Hohmann, pg. 174-175.
Provenance: Israel Sack, New York; Sotheby's New York, January 22, 2011 lot 120 for $37,500; Collection of C.L. Prickett
Rare Pennsylvania Chippendale Cherry Tall Case Clock
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dial inscribed "Jacob Diehl Reading", Berks County, Pennsylvania, circa 1800, old dark surface, broken arch molded pediment with dramatic carved rosettes above relief carved leaf and floral tympanum, waisted case with blind fretwork basket weave molding, over shaped door flanked by fluted quarter columns, paneled base with ogee bracket feet, arched and painted dial with moon phase, seconds sweep, and date aperture, brass eight day movement, pendulum and two weights present, 95 x 25-1/2 x 12 in.
Note: This clock is pictured in Pennsylvania Clockmakers, Watchmakers, and Allied Crafts by James B. Whisker, pg. 172-173, fig. 35-36.
Also illustrated in Berks County Tall Case Clocks, 1750-1850, pg. 41, 84, and 85.
Exhibition catalog by the Historical Society of Berks County, September 16, 1995 – March 16, 1996.
Provenance: Collection of C.L. Prickett
American Chippendale Birch Tall Case Clock
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American Chippendale Birch Tall Case Clock
circa 1800, white pine secondary, arched hood with fully turned column supports, the wooden painted face "S. Hoadley Plymouth" with spread winged eagle and township scene (wooden workings), the case with a lipped waist door flanked by reeded columns, molded base raised on ogee bracket feet.
86.5 x 19 x 13 in.
From the Collection of Mr. James L. Parker, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Chippendale Mahogany Tall Case Clock
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Chippendale Mahogany Tall Case Clock
Solliday Family, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, late 18th century
Height 7 feet 11 inches, width 21 1/2 inches.
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Pennsylvania Chippendale Tall Case Clock
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Pennsylvania Chippendale Tall Case. C. 1785. Mahogany with fluted quarter columns; swan’s neck top, carved rosettes; some restorations. Brass moon phase dial with silvered chapter ring. 8 day time & strike weight driven calendar movement. Ht. 8′ 5″. The Greenberg Collection, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Chippendale Tall Case Clock
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Pennsylvania Chippendale Tall Case Clock
Pull up movement. Movement associated to the case.
Ht. 7′ 7″
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