A FEDERAL CARVED MAHOGANY TALL-CASE CLOCK

DIAL SIGNED BY SIMON WILLARD (1753-1848), ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1790

Details

A FEDERAL CARVED MAHOGANY TALL-CASE CLOCK
Dial signed by Simon Willard (1753-1848), Roxbury, Massachusetts, circa 1790
The arched hood with fret-carved pediment centering a brass ball and steeple finial and flanked by brass ball and steeple finials, each on reeded plinths over an arched glazed door opening to a white-painted dial with Roman and Arabic chapter rings enclosing a sweep seconds dial and calendar aperture signed "SIMON WILLARD" with painted rosebud spandrels surmounted by a painted ship and lunar dial flanked by freestanding brass and wooden stop-fluted colonettes above a coved mid-molding over a waisted case fitted with a molded arched rectangular door flanked by brass and wooden stop-fluted quarter columns over a square box-base, on ogee bracket feet
93in. high, 20in. wide, 10in. deep

Lot Essay

A similar clock by Simon Willard is published in Zea et. al. Clock Making in New England: 1725-1825 (Sturbridge, 1992), p.37, fig.2-19. For a full discussion of Simon Willard's Clocks see R.W. Husher and W.W. Welch, A Study of Simon Willard's Clocks (Boston, 1980).