Lot Essay
For a related tall-case clock attributed to Augustin Neisser see Bishop and Distin, The American Clock (New York, 1976), p. 28, fig. 38
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A FEDERAL WALNUT TALL-CASE CLOCK
DIAL SIGNED AUGUSTINE NEISSER, GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The hood with covered cornice surmounted by a scrolled fret above a glazed door opening to a square brass dial with Roman and Arabic chapter rings enclosing a sweep seconds hand and a calendar day aperature flanked by cast brass spandrels, the dialface inscribed "Augustine Neifser, Germantown," flnaked by four colonettes over a waisted case with a rectangular door with hollow corners and thumb-molding above a box base with applied base molding, on ogee bracket feet--89½in. high, 20¼in. wide, 10¾in. deep
DIAL SIGNED AUGUSTINE NEISSER, GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The hood with covered cornice surmounted by a scrolled fret above a glazed door opening to a square brass dial with Roman and Arabic chapter rings enclosing a sweep seconds hand and a calendar day aperature flanked by cast brass spandrels, the dialface inscribed "Augustine Neifser, Germantown," flnaked by four colonettes over a waisted case with a rectangular door with hollow corners and thumb-molding above a box base with applied base molding, on ogee bracket feet--89½in. high, 20¼in. wide, 10¾in. deep