Ogee bracket feet support a large rectangular base with inset front reeded pilasters and an inlaid rectangular centeral panel with cut-out semi-circular corners. Step-molding leads to long, thin works case with inset reeded pilasters. Rectangular door with cut-out corners at top. Proportionally large face enclosed by bonnet with columnar corners with brass at top and bottom. Bonnet encloses small arched window at sides and rectangular glass door with a domed top. Painted dial has Roman numerals; a separate, smaller second-hand dial; gold-painted scrolls in corners and at top, flanking two stylized birds. Conforming domed bonnet. Stripe of inlaid maple surmounted by molding and broken scroll molded pediment with central brass ball and obelisk finial. Two similar flanking finials at sides.
tall case clocks
timepieces
cherry (wood)
veneer
inlay (process)
mahogany (wood)
maple (wood)
maple (wood)
Mahogany
Mahogany Veneer
Maple
Inlaid
CLOCK, TALL CASE
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Cox, Benjamin (Maker)
Philadelphia, PA, USA
95.25 x 20.375 x 10.5 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.406
Pennsylvania (United States)
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