Lot Essay
William Cornell (1729-1801) worked as a clockmaker and silversmith in Providence, Rhode Island.
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THE DIAL SIGNED BY WALTER CORNELL (1777-1856), NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, 1800-1810
Details
AN AMERICAN GILT-BRASS MOUNTED MAHOGANY STRIKING TALLCASE CLOCK WITH AUTOMATON
THE DIAL SIGNED BY WALTER CORNELL (1777-1856), NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, 1800-1810
The arched hood with ball finials and fret cresting, outset brass columns to the angles, the trunk with three-quarter columns and raised on bracket feet, the 13 inch square dial with painted and raised spandrels, Arabic hours and five minute markers, inner calendar ring, signed ‘Walter Cornell / No. 156 Thames St. / Newport’, the arch with ship in a coastal seascape moving with the seconds, the twin train movement with anchor escapement and count wheel strike to bell, Inventory Number H1543- and 'Sept '93 500(?)'
91 in. (231.2 cm.) high; 19 ¾ in. (50.2 cm.) wide; 10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) deep
THE DIAL SIGNED BY WALTER CORNELL (1777-1856), NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, 1800-1810
The arched hood with ball finials and fret cresting, outset brass columns to the angles, the trunk with three-quarter columns and raised on bracket feet, the 13 inch square dial with painted and raised spandrels, Arabic hours and five minute markers, inner calendar ring, signed ‘Walter Cornell / No. 156 Thames St. / Newport’, the arch with ship in a coastal seascape moving with the seconds, the twin train movement with anchor escapement and count wheel strike to bell, Inventory Number H1543- and 'Sept '93 500(?)'
91 in. (231.2 cm.) high; 19 ¾ in. (50.2 cm.) wide; 10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) deep
Provenance
The Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan, until 1940.
Literature
William H. Distin and Robert Bishop, The American Clock: A Comprehensive Pictorial Survey, 1723–1900: With a Listing of 6153 Clockmakers (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1976), 49, fig. 90.
The Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery, RIF4023.
The Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery, RIF4023.
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