Sale 1129
New York
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9 October 2002
Price realised
USD 10,158
Estimate
A CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY TALL-CASE CLOCK Dial signed by Andrew Billings, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1800-1810 The hood with pagoda pediment and applied molded cornice over an arched glazed cupboard door opening to a white-painted dial with Roman and Arabic chapter rings enclosing a calendar aperture and sweep seconds ring surmounted by lunar dial, inscribed Andrew Billings, Poughkeepsie flanked by fluted colonettes above a waisted case with a shaped thumbmolded door flanked by fluted quarter columns above a box base, on ogee bracket 100in. high, 17in. wide, 9¾in. deep
Provenance
Sold in these rooms, 21 January 1989, lot 571
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Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
The watch that flew to the moon with NASA’s astronauts — a rare commemorative version of which is offered online, 24 April to 8 May
This monumental, square-format work is a major highlight of Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on 20 June in London