It has a square face with black painted Roman numeral dial, with Arabic numerals at the quarter hour. It has a half circle on the top is ornamented with gilding showing a house in a landscape. There is decoration in all four corners of leaf and floral in ribbon-like triangle done in black and red paint and gilding. [see photo neg#47588-A]
dials
timepieces
gilding
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
floral patterns
numerals
Clock
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
16 x 12 x 3 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.915
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