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Bonnet top with three reeded plinths having replaced cup shaped brass finials, fret work ornament between. Tiger maple and walnut face door encloses enameled face with marine scene at top in which ship rocks with swing of pendulum, brass works. Reeded columns with simple brass base matching capitol. Bracket base with well cut-out feet.
tall case clocks
maple (wood)
birch (wood)
basswood (genus)
eastern white pine (wood)
Clock, Tall Case
Tall case musical or "quarter- chiming" clocks, which played tunes on the quarter hour, were mechanical tours de force, requiring the work of uniquely skilled craftsmen. This one, which also features a rocking ship above the dial, was additionally complicated. The painted iron dial itself was manufactured in Boston, but the clock case and elaborate clock and chiming mechanisim were likely made by the Rogers family of Berwick, Maine.
Thacher, Mary
Original To Winslow Crocker House (Yarmouth Port, Mass.),
267.1981
Rogers, Paul, 1752-1818 (Clockmaker)
Rogers, Abner, 1777-1809 (Clockmaker)
83 x 18 3/8 x 9 7/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Estate of Guido R. Perera
1999.472
The Willard House and Clock Musuem
1800 (circa)
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