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Painted and gilt decorated tombstone clock dial with Arabic numerals. There is a gilt reserve with a rose sprig and rose sprig spandrels.
dials
timepieces
gesso
gilding
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
numerals
floral patterns
rose (genus)
Wood
Gesso
Gilded
Painted
Numbers
Rose
CLOCK
Painted on is: R. Whiting, Winchester.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Whiting, Riley, d. 1835 (Maker)
Winchester & Winsted, CT, USA
16 x 12 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.919
Connecticut (United States)
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