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Lot Essay
This clock is one of six known with movements made by Nathan Howell (1741-1784) of New Haven, including two examples in the New Haven Colony Historical Society and a third in the collection of Bayou Bend, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Of those published, the dials are consistently decorated with the similar spandrels, dial layout and scrolled signatures. Howell's surviving inventory includes a large quantity of tools and an unfinished clock, indicating he was an active clockmaker at the time of his death (Warren et al., American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1998), cat. F125, p. 76; Florene Maine advertisement, Antiques (June 1968), p. 696; Hoopes, Connecticut Clockmakers of the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1930), figs. 17, 41, pp. 91-92).
Possibly made for the Revolutionary war hero, Major General Nathaniel Greene (1742-1786), the clock stood in the same house occupied by Greene in the eighteenth century and his direct descendants in the twentieth.
Possibly made for the Revolutionary war hero, Major General Nathaniel Greene (1742-1786), the clock stood in the same house occupied by Greene in the eighteenth century and his direct descendants in the twentieth.