An iron lunette form enameled off white and hand painted in polychrome. It shows an elegant young seated shephardess in a pink Empire style gown in a country landscape.
dials
timepieces
enameling
iron (metal)
painting (coating)
Empire (style)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
shepherds
Landscape
Shepherd
Empire
Iron
Enameled
Painted
Clock
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5 1/2 x 11 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.906
Title Clock Face Accession Number 1991.907
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