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A LATE FEDERAL MAHOGANY TALL-CASE CLOCK
JOSEPH GORGAS, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1825
The molded swan's-neck pediment centering urn finials above an arched hood flanked by ring-turned tapering columns with brass capitals and base centering a glazed door opening to a dial signed Joseph Gorgas with Roman numerals on a white-painted ground with peach and leaf-decorated spandrels surmounted by a lunar dial with pastoral scene and seascapes, the case with rectangular thumb-molded door flanked by stylized pilasters above a box base with similar stylized pilaster over a shaped apron, on bracket feet--98 3/8in. tall, 20½in. wide, 10in. deep
JOSEPH GORGAS, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1825
The molded swan's-neck pediment centering urn finials above an arched hood flanked by ring-turned tapering columns with brass capitals and base centering a glazed door opening to a dial signed Joseph Gorgas with Roman numerals on a white-painted ground with peach and leaf-decorated spandrels surmounted by a lunar dial with pastoral scene and seascapes, the case with rectangular thumb-molded door flanked by stylized pilasters above a box base with similar stylized pilaster over a shaped apron, on bracket feet--98 3/8in. tall, 20½in. wide, 10in. deep