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1820-1850
GUSN-2597
The cream-painted dial of square form with demilune crest painted with black Roman numerals and polychrome springs at spaudrels and polychrome scene of buildings at crest. The crest has an arch-shape opening for carved and painted bird to come out of it (the door to his opening is missing); wooden works; iron weights, chain and scrolled hands.
wag-on-wall clocks
timepieces
iron (metal)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
clocks
Wood
Iron
Painted
Clock, Wall
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
13 3/4 x 10 x 8 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.814
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