A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY SHELF CLOCK

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A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY SHELF CLOCK
BY DAVID WOOD, NEWBURYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1800

The hood with molded arched pediment surmounted with three shield-
inlaid plinths and brass flame finials centering carved giltwood fretwork above an arched line-inlaid door opening to a white-painted dial with Roman and Arabic chapter rings flanked by floral spandrels and inscribed "David Wood," the case with crossbanded and line-inlaid hinged door with applied ogee molding, on ogee bracket feet with brass carrying handles (appears to retain original carrying handles, stamped "69"; lacks one finial)--35in. high, 12 3/4in. wide, 6 1/8in. deep

Lot Essay

This shelf clock is nearly identical to another shelf clock with pewter fretwork by David Wood which sold in these Rooms on January 25, 1986, lot 343. Another closely related shelf clock, now in the collection of The Chipstone Foundation, the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Stone, is illustrated and discussed in Oswaldo Rodriquez Rogue, American Furniture at Chipstone (Madison, Wisconsin, 1984), p. xxxvii and pp. 102-103. A third shelf clock, now in the collection of The Winterthur Museum, is illustrated and discussed in Charles F.
Montgomery, American Furniture, The Federal Period (New York, 1966), p. 212.