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Lot Essay
Infusing high style Philadelphia design with flourishes of the German baroque, this clock is a remarkable example of the regionally specific design aesthetic of the Lancaster Chippendale School.
With its carved rosettes, flame-turned finials and elegantly formed swans neck pediment, the bonnet is conceived in the sophisticated style of urban Philadelphia. But the bonnet and case also display a particularly Germanic influence in the carved cornice moldings, relief-carved tympanum board, engaged quarter columns and applied turtle carving. It is a fully formed example of rococo cabinetwork in 18th Century Lancaster County. For a related example from the Lancaster Chippendale School, see Frank L. Hohmann III, Timeless: Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocks (New York, 2009), pp. 216-217.
With its carved rosettes, flame-turned finials and elegantly formed swans neck pediment, the bonnet is conceived in the sophisticated style of urban Philadelphia. But the bonnet and case also display a particularly Germanic influence in the carved cornice moldings, relief-carved tympanum board, engaged quarter columns and applied turtle carving. It is a fully formed example of rococo cabinetwork in 18th Century Lancaster County. For a related example from the Lancaster Chippendale School, see Frank L. Hohmann III, Timeless: Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocks (New York, 2009), pp. 216-217.