Lot 708
708
A CHIPPENDALE GRAIN-PAINTED TALL-CASE CLOCK
A CHIPPENDALE GRAIN-PAINTED TALL-CASE CLOCK

DIAL SIGNED BY JACOB GEIGER (WORKING CIRCA 1787-1790 IN PENNSYLVANIA), NORTHAMPTON, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1790

Details
A CHIPPENDALE GRAIN-PAINTED TALL-CASE CLOCK
Dial signed by Jacob Geiger (working circa 1787-1790 in Pennsylvania), Northampton, Pennsylvania, circa 1790
The broken swan's-neck pediment terminating in carved rosettes centering and flanked by steeple and ball finials above an arched glazed door opening to a white-painted dial with Arabic and Roman chapter rings centering a calendar aperture, signed, "Jacob Geiger/Northampton", and floral-paint decoration enclosed and surmounted by similarly painted spandrels and arch, all flanked by ring-and-baluster turned free standing colonettes over waisted case fitted with an arched door flanked by fluted quarter-columns above a box base with similar columns over a conforming molded base, on ogee bracket feet, all grain-painted in brown on a mustard ground
89in. high, 19in. wide, 10in. deep

Lot Essay

Jacob Geiger worked in present-day Allentown, previously called Northampton, for a brief period in the late 1780s. By 1793, he had moved to Maryland (Sposato, The Dictionary of American Clock and Watch Makers (New York, 1983), p. 65).