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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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Fewer than 30 of these horseshoe-back armchairs are known to exist. This one comes to auction on 13 September in New York
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