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A paint and gilt decorated tombstone clock dial with arabic numerals. The face is painted white with a lunette that centers a gray urn and greenery within an oval reserve of gilt beading and gilt foliate scrolls. The face with chapter ring in Arabic numerals are painted in black and conforming numerals at the second hand ring and aperature. Red, green and black rose sprays are hand painted at the spandrels. The face, spandrels and lunette are all intwined with gilt aperature.
dials
timepieces
gesso
gilding
hardwood
painting (coating)
foliation (pattern)
scrolling foliage
numerals
urns
Hardwood
Gesso
Painted
Urn
Foliate
Numbers
Gilded
Clock
Painted on the face over the second hand aperatture is: S. Hoadley, Plymouth.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Hoadley, Silas, 1786-1870 (Maker)
Plymouth, CT, USA
16 x 12 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.910
Connecticut (United States)
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