DIAL SIGNED SIMON WILLARD (1753-1848), CIRCA 1815, ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS

細節

A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY TALL-CASE CLOCK
Dial signed Simon Willard (1753-1848), circa 1815, Roxbury, Massachusetts
The arched hood with pierced fret headed and flanked by brass ball-and-spire finials, above an arched glazed door, flanked by colonettes, opening to reveal a painted face with white ground and gilded, red and green foliate and scrolling embellishment above Roman and Arabic chapter rings centering a seconds sweep and a calender aperture over Warranted by/Simon Willard, all surrounded by similarly painted spandrels, above a waisted case fitted with a door, flanked by quarter columns, over an inlaid box base, on French feet
101in. high, 19in. wide, 10in. deep

來源

Hezekiah Lord Wight (1765-1837) of Richmond, Virginia
William Leeds Wight (1803-1873)
Lieut. William Washington Wight (b. 1837)
William Leeds Wight (1869-1946)
Williams Leeds Wight, Jr. (1916-1989)

拍品專文

The detailed family history associated with this clock indicates that it was owned in Virginia from the time it was made into the mid-20th century. The first owner of the clock, Hezekia Lord Wight, was a properous tobacco merchant who bought Tuckahoe Plantation, just west of Richmond. From him it passed to his son William Leeds Wight, and thus to his son William Washington Wight, a Lieutenant of Engineers in the Confederate Army. His son, William Leeds Wight, moved from Richmond during the Great Depression to Clifton Plantation, his wife's family home on the Potomac.