$984
New Hampshire Grain-painted Tall Clock, c. 1810, arch-top hood with freestanding columns flanking the Roman numeral painted iron dial with floral spandrels and a bird in the arch, seconds bit and calendar aperture, molded waist door with brass-mounted quarter-columns, all resting on high straight French feet, eight-day time and hour strike movement with half-moon cutouts on plates and false plate reading Osborne's Manufactory Birmingham , regulated by a brass-faced pendulum and powered by two cast iron weights, ht. 85 in. Provenance: Sotheby's, June 17th and 18th 1997, Lot 667.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-04-29