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A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY TALL-CASE CLOCK
A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY TALL-CASE CLOCK

DIAL SIGNED BY ISAAC SCHOONMAKER, PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, 1810-1825

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A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY TALL-CASE CLOCK
Dial signed by Isaac Schoonmaker, Paterson, New Jersey, 1810-1825
The molded broken swan's-neck pediment terminating in brass roundels centering a bookend-inlaid plinth above an arched glazed door opening to a white-painted enamel dial face with Roman and Arabic chapter rings signed "Isaac Schoonmaker, Paterson" with gilded and decorated spandrels flanked by fluted colonettes above a triglyph and inlaid frieze over a waisted case with shell-inlaid door flanked by fluted quarter-columns above similarly inlaid panel above a line and pinwheel inlaid box base, on bracket feet
90in. high, 18in. wide, 9in. deep

拍品專文

Isaac Schoonmaker was working in Paterson, New Jersey in the early 19th century. At least three other clocks with his signed dials survive, including one made for Garret Brinkerhoff in 1822 (William E. Drost, Clocks and Watches of New Jersey (Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1966), pp. 215-217).