A CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD TALL-CASE CLOCK
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A CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD TALL-CASE CLOCK

THE DIAL SIGNED BY ISAAC BROKAW (1746-1826), ELIZABETH TOWN; THE CASE LABELED BY MATTHEW EGERTON, JR. (CIRCA 1769-1836), NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, CIRCA 1792

细节
A CHIPPENDALE CARVED CHERRYWOOD TALL-CASE CLOCK
THE DIAL SIGNED BY ISAAC BROKAW (1746-1826), ELIZABETH TOWN; THE CASE LABELED BY MATTHEW EGERTON, JR. (CIRCA 1769-1836), NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, CIRCA 1792
the brass dial signed Isaac Brokaw/ E Town; the pendulum bob marked IB; the inside of waist door with printed label MADE AND SOLD BY/ MATTHEW EGERTON, Junior,/ JOINER AND CABINETMAKER,/ NEW-BRUNSWICK,/ NEW-JERSEY,/ No. [hand-inscribed in ink] 2; label with additional inscriptions in ink May 10 1792 and Price £9.1.6
92 ½ in. high, 21 ¼ in. wide, 11 in. deep
来源
Israel Sack, Inc., New York
出版
Israel Sack, Inc., American Antiques from Israel Sack, Inc., vol. 3, pp. 642–643, P1437.
Israel Sack Furniture Archive, Yale University Art Gallery, digcoll:1024591, available at https://findit.library.yale.edu/catalog/digcoll:1024591
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拍品专文

Documenting the talents of clockmaker Isaac Brokaw and cabinetmaker Matthew Egerton, Jr., this tall-case clock is an important survival of eighteenth-century New Jersey craftsmanship. With close familial and professional ties to the Miller family, Brokaw was a member of the most significant dynasty of clockmakers in the state during this time. Brokaw is recorded as working in Elizabeth Town (now Elizabeth) from 1779 to 1789 before moving to Bridgetown (now Rahway) while the clock’s paper label is hand-dated 1792; it is possible that Brokaw continued to work in Elizabeth Town after 1789 or that he made the movement before his move and sold it to the cabinetmaker a few years later. For more on Brokaw, see Martha H. Willoughby, biographies, Timeless: American Masterpiece Brass Dial Clocks, Frank Hohmann III, ed. (New York, 2009), p. 322. Like Brokaw, Egerton was a member of a familial dynasty and a leading practitioner of his craft. For a virtually identical tall-case clock with the same hood carving also bearing Egerton’s label, see Sotheby’s, New York, 22-23 January 2010, lot 526.

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