$2,583
Miles Morse Four-column Mahogany Shelf Clock, Plymouth, Connecticut, c. 1825, the two-tier case with columns flanking the glazed dial door over the painted iron Roman numeral dial signed M. Morse. Plymouth, Ct. , gilt scroll and floral spandrels, seconds bit and pierced diamond-shaped blued steel hands, the lower section with hinged door, veneered frame enclosing a reverse-painted tablet depicting a town center within an oval border of gold leaf on a red and blue ground and an oval pendulum aperture all against a mustard ground and flanked by freestanding columns, eight-day time and rack strike brass movement powered by two iron weights and regulated by a pendulum, ht. 26 1/4 in. Provenance: Dr. Martin Baker; Terry and Karen Brotherton. Literature: This clock is illustrated in American Shelf and Wall Clocks , p. 202; and Horological Rarities of Space City '99 , p. 4.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-04-25