$27,060
Carved Cherry Tall Case Clock, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, late 18th century, the hood with molded and dentiled broken arch, floral-carved rosettes and flame and urn finials, housing a white-painted dial showing ages of the moon flanked by ring-turned quarter-columns and freestanding columns, on waist with dentiled molding, shaped door and flanking reeded quarter columns, the base with scalloped raised panel, all on ogee bracket feet, old surface, (minor imperfections), ht. including finial 92 in. Literature: For a nearly identical clock, see the auction catalog for The Americana Collection of Richard and Rosemarie Machmer, Pook and Pook, October 24 and 25, 2008, Lot 305.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-11-19