A MAHOGANY PILLAR AND SCROLL EXTERIOR ESCAPEMENT SHELF CLOCK

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A MAHOGANY PILLAR AND SCROLL EXTERIOR ESCAPEMENT SHELF CLOCK
LABELED BY ELI TERRY, PLYMOTH, CONNECTICUT, CIRCA 1816

The swan's neck pediment containing three plinths above a glazed door with lower eglomise panel with landscape scene opening to a white-painted enamel dial with Roman chapter ring, gilt spandrels and central painted church, the dial with exterior escapement, centered by turned colonettes over a shaped skirt, on bracket feet (eglomise panel repainted)--27½in. high, 17½in. wide, 4½in. deep

Lot Essay

This shelf clock reveals Eli Terry's innovative construction, patented in 1816, of the exterior escapement placed outside of the wooden movement where it was more accesible for maintenance. For a related shelf clocks, see Battison and Kane The Ameican Clock: 1725-1865 (Connecticut, 1973), fig. 43, p. 187; Sack Fine Points of Furniture (New York, 1993), "Superior" category, p.147.