Lot 154
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A FEDERAL MAHOGANY TALL-CASE CLOCK

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A FEDERAL MAHOGANY TALL-CASE CLOCK
BY EPHRAIM CLARK, PHILADELPHIA, FL. 1780-1812

The hood with coved cornice above an arched glazed door opening to a white-painted dial with Roman and Arabic chapter rings enclosing a sweep seconds ring and calendar day aperture flanked by gilt scrolled spandrels surmounted by a painted lunette depicting a riverscape and inscribed "Ephraim Clark, Philada" flanked by four colonettes over a waisted case, the rectangular door with hollow corners and thumbmolding above a box base centering a rectangular panel over a molded base, on ogee bracket feet (feet reduced approximately one inch)--87 3/4in. high, 19 1/2in. wide, 10 1/2in. deep

Lot Essay

Ephraim Clark was a clock and watchmaker, who is also known to have retailed imported clocks. He worked at a number of locations along Front and South Front Streets in Philadelphia (see George H. Eckhardt, Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers, New York, 1955, p. 173).