Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Possibly Massachusetts or New Hampshire, late 18th century, arched metal face with unsigned 12-inch mail dial in Arabic and Roman chapters, flanked by hand-painted gilt floral spandrels, beneath a calendar phase lunette alternating with star and moon, sun, seated lady; operated by an eight day dual train pillared movement striking on an apical bell, the rear false plate stamped "Osborne's / Manufactory / Birmingham," presented within a Chippendale carved cherry case, white pine secondary, hood with fret carved pediment and three fluted plinths mounted with brass spired sphere finials, hinged glass tombstone hood door flanked by two fully turned and fluted columns and side windows, over a hinged tombstone case door, four fully turned tapered and fluted columns; the case with a hinged tombstone waist door with molded edges, fluted corner quarter columns with brass capital and base, the rectangular base with scalloped upper apron, raised on ogee bracket feet, with period pendulum, winding key and two stone weights.
98 x 20 x 10 1/2 in.
Private Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Some painted restoration to the face; clock restorer's paper label to the movement base mount "Clock Folk of New England Reading Mass" indicate a gut brush cleaning and face pallet re-pivot in 1997; later glass to hood; crack and repair to one ear tip on fret carved pediment and corner of scalloped apron; some minor light scratches and nicks to case; shrinkage crack above pendulum door and to the base obverse; case hinges loose. Please see Terms and Conditions of Sale: Clocks and Watches.
