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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY TALL-CASE CLOCK
DIAL SIGNED BY ANDREW BILLINGS, POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK, 1800-1810
Details
A CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY TALL-CASE CLOCK
Dial signed by Andrew Billings, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1800-1810
The hood with pagoda pediment and applied molded cornice over an arched glazed cupboard door opening to a white-painted dial with Roman and Arabic chapter rings enclosing a calendar aperture and sweep seconds ring surmounted by lunar dial, inscribed Andrew Billings, Poughkeepsie flanked by fluted colonettes above a waisted case with a shaped thumbmolded door flanked by fluted quarter columns above a box base, on ogee bracket
100in. high, 17in. wide, 9¾in. deep
Dial signed by Andrew Billings, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1800-1810
The hood with pagoda pediment and applied molded cornice over an arched glazed cupboard door opening to a white-painted dial with Roman and Arabic chapter rings enclosing a calendar aperture and sweep seconds ring surmounted by lunar dial, inscribed Andrew Billings, Poughkeepsie flanked by fluted colonettes above a waisted case with a shaped thumbmolded door flanked by fluted quarter columns above a box base, on ogee bracket
100in. high, 17in. wide, 9¾in. deep
Provenance
Sold in these rooms, 21 January 1989, lot 571