$98,400
Monumental Tiffany & Company Quarter-chiming Mahogany Floor Clock, case attributed to R. J. Horner & Co., W. 23rd Street, New York; Retailed by Tiffany & Company, New York, c. 1900, finely carved removable crest with winged figures flanking a center raised boss supported by flowers, leaves and scroll decoration over the gadrooned crown molding, below winged Griffins flank the composite brass Arabic numeral dial with seconds bit, subsidiary dials for Chime-Silent and Westminster/ Whittington chime selection, moon's age in the arch and pierced brass grill work on spandrels and center, the glazed waist door flanked by caryatids of human female and fish form over the fully carved base panel with central putti, birds, a grotesque mask and allegorical human depictions of the wind on a punch decorated ground, eight-day, three train quarter-chiming movement attributed to J.J. Elliott, LTD, London with nine tubular bells marked Walter H. Durfee, Prov. RI , dead-beat escapement, rack and snail strike, brass-faced seconds-beating pendulum and three brass-cased weights, ht. 119 in. Provenance: This clock was part of the original furnishings of the W.P. Brown mansion on 4717 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans. This four story, 22,000 square foot Romanesque revival mansion was built by Brown between 1901 and 1904 as the promised gift to his wife of the "most palatial dwelling in New Orleans". According to accounts, many rooms of the house and the grand staircase were sheathed in flame maho Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-11-01