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A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY TALL-CASE CLOCK
DIAL SIGNED AND CASE LABELLED SIMON WILLARD, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1805
The arched molded hood with pierced fret centering three plinths surmounted by brass fluted ball-and-spire finials above a molded cornice over a conforming glazed cupboard door opening to a conforming white-painted dial with Roman and Arabic chapter rings enclosing a sweep seconds hand and calendar day aperture surmounted by a lunette embellished with a central flower encircled by a meandering vine flanked by a rose, the spandrels blue-painted and decorated with various flowers, the dial signed Simon Willard, flanked by stop-fluted columns with brass capitals and bases above a waisted case with a cockbeaded cupboard door embellished with fan-inlaid corners flanked by stop-fluted quarter columns with brass capitals and bases over a line-and-fan inlaid rectangular base, the interior case door with engraved label for Simon Willard, (lacking feet)--92¼in. high, 18½in. wide, 10in. deep
