A CHIPPENDALE CARVED WALNUT TALL-CASE CLOCK

FREDERICK TOWN OR HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND, 1780-1800

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A CHIPPENDALE CARVED WALNUT TALL-CASE CLOCK
Frederick Town or Hagerstown, Maryland, 1780-1800
The molded broken swan's-neck pediment terminating in carved rosettes centering three urn-and-steeple finials, the center above an incised geometric appliqu, all over a glazed arched door opening to a white-painted dial with Roman and Arabic chapter rings centering a calendar aperture and enclosed by gilt and red and black-painted quarter-fan spandrels, all surmounted by a basket of flowers in gilt and painted in shades of green, pink, black and white, all flanked by colonettes above a waisted case fitted with a thumbmolded door with shaped crest flanked by fluted quarter-columns over a box base with molded shaped appliqu flanked by fluted quarter columns above a conforming molded base, on ogee bracket feet
95in. high, 19in. wide, 11in. deep

Lot Essay

For related clocks with similar appliqus, quarter-columns and box bases with applied panels, see Priddy and Quinn, "Crossroad of Culture: Eighteenth-Century Furniture from Western Maryland," American Furniture (Hanover, New Hampshire, 1997), pp.127-169, figs. 18,19,42, 44 and 45.

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