A FEDERAL MAHOGANY DWARF CLOCK

HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1815

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A FEDERAL MAHOGANY DWARF CLOCK
Hingham, Massachusetts, circa 1815
The arched crest with pierced fretwork centering and flanked by brass ball-and-spire finials above an arched glazed door opening to a white-painted dial face with Roman and Arabic chapter rings enclosed by urn and floral gilt spandrels surmounted by similar gilt decoration, all flanked by colonettes over a waisted case fitted with a molded door with banded edges above a box-base with banded edge, on a shaped skirt continuing to straight bracket feet
48in. high, 11in. wide, 6in. deep

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Lot Essay

Dwarf clocks, popular during the first quarter of the nineteenth century in America, were made by many tall case makers in New England including Joshua Wilder (1786-1800) and Reuben Tower (w.1810-30) of Hingham, Massachusetts. With its arched pediment, unadorned case, molded case door, and shaped skirt, the clock offered here is related to a clock by Reuben Tower, made between 1810 and 1830 and illustrated in Bishop and Distin, The American Clock (New York, 1976), p.77, figs. 145.

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