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Of square form, painted white and decorated with gilt gesso and scrolled devices in spandrels enclosing a dial in Arabic numerals in black. A wreath of flowers in red, pink and shades of green is at the center. There are also two brass ring key holes on the face.
shelf clocks
dials
timepieces
gesso
hardwood
painting (coating)
floral patterns
Hardwood
Gesso
Painted
Floral
Clock
Inscriptions in pencil on the back are: Apl 27 (?) 1850 A. Fairfield. And: Nov 15 1856 A.F. (repair rotations).
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Possibly Fairfield, A. (Maker)
USA
12 x 10 9/10 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.917
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