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拍品專文
This tall-case clock features a form and design typical of New Jersey craftsmanship during the late eighteenth century. Displaying a swan-neck pediment with brass ball finials, elaborate patterns of fluted inlay, a masterful inlaid American eagle encircled in nineteen stars at the center of the case door, and a classical inlaid urn at the base of the trunk with a circular paterae at bottom, this piece is an important example and representation of the Federal era.
A virtually identical clock with its dial signed by Joachim Hill (1783-1869) is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and illustrated in William H. Distin and Robert Bishop, The American Clock (New York, 1976), p. 57, fig. 111. It bears the same series of inlay designs including an eagle, urn and circular paterae. Since it is known that Hill, who worked in Flemington, New Jersey, often purchased from two nearby cabinetmakers, Oliver Parsell (1757-1818) of New Brunswick and John Tappan of Flemington, it is very possible that this clock from the Nusrala Collection came out of one of those two shops (for a labeled Parsell clock and Hill's working relationship with Tappan, see William Drost, Clocks and Watches of New Jersey (New Jersey, 1966), pp. 121-123).
A virtually identical clock with its dial signed by Joachim Hill (1783-1869) is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and illustrated in William H. Distin and Robert Bishop, The American Clock (New York, 1976), p. 57, fig. 111. It bears the same series of inlay designs including an eagle, urn and circular paterae. Since it is known that Hill, who worked in Flemington, New Jersey, often purchased from two nearby cabinetmakers, Oliver Parsell (1757-1818) of New Brunswick and John Tappan of Flemington, it is very possible that this clock from the Nusrala Collection came out of one of those two shops (for a labeled Parsell clock and Hill's working relationship with Tappan, see William Drost, Clocks and Watches of New Jersey (New Jersey, 1966), pp. 121-123).