Sold for:
$17,220
$17,220
Simon Willard Eight-day Tall Clock, Roxbury, Massachusetts, c. 1795, fret top hood with fluted plinths and brass finials over the glazed door flanked by brass stop fluted freestanding columns flanking the painted iron Roman numeral dial signed Simon Willard , raised gilt spandrels and arch decoration, date and seconds dials, the tombstone-shaped waist door flanked by brass stop-fluted quarter columns over a shortened base with paterae and two-stage base molding, eight-day time and hour strike movement with period wooden pendulum rod and brass-faced bob all powered by two period tin-cased weights, ht. 91 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-11-01
