A CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD TALL-CASE CLOCK

DIAL SIGNED BY REUBEN INGRAHAM (1745-1811), PRESTON OR PLAINFIELD, CONNECTICUT, 1780-1800

細節

A CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD TALL-CASE CLOCK
Dial signed by Reuben Ingraham (1745-1811), Preston or Plainfield, Connecticut, 1780-1800
The arched molded crest with carved fretwork centering and flanked by three brass ball-and-spire finials above fluted plinths over a glazed door revealing a brass moon phase dial surmounted by the engraving TIME IS NOT TO BE RECALLED above Roman and Arabic chapter rings centering a seconds dial and Reuben Ingraham over a calendar aperture above a molded cornice over a waisted case with carved shell above a glazed aperture over a mid-molding and applied scalloped molding above a box base with molded base, on ogee bracket feet with scrolled returns (rippled molding later, feet pieced)
93¼in. high, 19½in. wide, 10½in. deep

來源

Dr. Otis Bailey (d. 1884), Norwich, Connecticut
Elias Morgan Brewster
Robert M. Brewster
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Albertine
By descent to the current owner

出版

Ada R. Chase, "Two Eighteenth Century Clockmakers," Antiques (September 1940), pp. 116-118.

展覽

Norwich, Connecticut: The Converse Art Gallery, Craftsmen & Artists of Norwich, 1965.

拍品專文

One of only five known tall case clocks with dials signed by Reuben Ingraham, the present clock, with brass dial and silvered chapter ring, brass sprandrels, calendar aperture, seconds dial, and moon phase is the most fully developed of the group. The case is also among the most elaborate, with a shell-carved door with bull's eye opening, scalloped base molding and ogee bracket feet.

Born in Saybrook, Ingraham was active first in Preston, Connecticut and then in Plainfield, Connecticut, where he bought a parcel of land with John Avery in 1784. Ingraham likely apprenticed with Avery's father, John Avery (1732-1794) of Preston. A related clock from the Mabel Brady Garvan Collection at Yale University Art Gallery is signed "Reuben Ingraham, Preston" and further suggests a connection to this shop (see Battison and Kane, The American Clock (Greenwich, Connecticut, 1973), pp. 26-29). The present example and the other four known tall case clocks by Ingraham are illustrated and discussed in Chase, cited above.