A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY TALL CASE CLOCK

DIAL SIGNED BY AARON WILLARD (1757-1844), BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1792-1800

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A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY TALL CASE CLOCK
Dial signed by Aaron Willard (1757-1844), Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1792-1800
The rectangular domed top with molded cornice surmounted by pierced fretwork and three fluted plinths and brass ball-and-spire finials above a conforming glazed door opening to reveal a white painted dial with moonphase flanked by stop fluted engaged colonettes with Roman and Arabic chapter rings centering the inscription Aaron Willard Boston and seconds sweep all with foliate painted and gilt decorated spandrels over a molded cornice and rectangular door with molding and line inlay flanked by stop-fluted quarter columns above mid-molding over a box base with line inlay and a molded base, on ogee bracket feet
97in. high, 20in. wide, 10in. deep

拍品專文

During the time of the Revolution and into the early 19th century, the Willard family operated the preminent clockmaking business in the region. Born in Grafton, Massachusetts, Aaron Willard established his shop on 843 Washington Street in Boston circa 1792.

Distinctive to many of the tall case clocks with works signed by Aaron Willard, the handsome case of this clock features pierced and applied fretwork, arched cornice and brass stop-fluted columns.

A similar tall case clock is illustrated in Kevin Battison and Patricia Kane, The American Clock 1725-1865 (Greenwich, Connecticut, 1973), pp. 66-67 and Philip Zea and Robert Cheney, Clock Making in New England 1725-1825 (Sturbridge, Massachusetts, 1992), pg. 41.