A Chippendale Carved and Figured Walnut Tall Case Clock

Movement By Thomas Wagstaffe Of London, Case From Philadelphia, Circa 1775

the rosette decorated swan's neck pediment surmounted by a central pierce carved cartouche flanked by flaming urn finials, above a engraved brass and silvered dial with Roman numeral chapter ring, inscribed, "Thomas Wagstaffe/ London," the case with fluted quarter columns flanking a double arched door and panel, raised on ogee bracket feet.

Height 100 1/4 x width 21 3/4 x depth 12 1/2 inches.

Provenance:

by repute, Jesse Williams and Elizabeth (Price) Williams, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;

to their daughter, Sarah (Williams) Longstreth (1781-1848) and her husband Joshua Longstreth (1775-1869);

to their daughter, Lydia Williams (Longstreth) Price (1801-1843) and her husband Richard Price (1794-1865);

to their daughter, Rebecca Thompson (Price) Hunt (1834-1927), and her husband William Hunt (1825-1896), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;

to their son, George Wood Hunt (1860-1907), and his wife Genevra Holt (1871-1959), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;

to their son, George Wood Hunt, Jr. (1903-1992), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;

private collections.

Note:

A handwritten paper label affixed to the interior of the back board reads:

George W. Hunt Jr. / This clock belonged to his great, great, great Grand father & Grand mother Jesse and Elizabeth Williams who lived at 709 Spruce Street from 1796 until 1814. / Sixth mo. 29th 1917.

presents well, with wonderful figuring to wood throughout; we feel that the dial, works and the case started out life together; glass panels to hood probably replaced; includes pendulum, two case keys, and brass keyhole escutcheon (detached but present); does not include weights or winding key; cartouche and finials are likely later replacements, possibly late 19th-century examples, and cartouche post with repaired break, with two minor cracks to upper part of cartouche; both finials with repaired breaks along base; backboard with numerous holes in backboard, retains bottom board; right-facing quarter column has shifted over time; some minor dents to case door molding; right-facing front foot with repaired break- elements slightly loose; some age cracks along side panels of base, and scratch to left-facing side of base; with shims under support boards / cheeks to clock works; brass with slight knick to bottom left-facing corner; some crazing to enamel filling roman numerals; stress crack to upper right-facing corner of hood door (but stable); left and right sides of broken arch with repaired breaks, small repaired chip to left-facing corner of pediment; some age cracks to side panels of hood; hood and trunk doors both lacking original escutcheon, with later one installed to hood door; as with all mechanical objects, Freeman's | Hindman does not guarantee functionality for clocks

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Lynda Cain serves as a Vice President of Freeman's and is the Head of Department for American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts.
She specializes in American furniture and decorative arts, Native American art, American folk art, and Pennsylvania furniture and decorative arts.
Cain joined Freeman's in 2001 as the company's first American furniture and decorative arts specialist. She began her career in American Decorative Arts as assistant curator at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1984 she became curator of costume at the Detroit Historical Museum. In 1986, she relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts and switched from museum work when she joined the American Furniture and Decorative Art Department at Skinner Inc., Bolton and Boston, Massachusetts. Before leaving New England in 1997, she had the great pleasure of directing the cataloguing project of the Folk Art Collection of Nine Fletcher and Bertram K. Little at Cogswell’s Grant, Essex, Massachusetts for the Society of the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England. Ms. Cain joined the cast of the popular PBS series Antiques Roadshow in Season 19.
Growing up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she was greatly influenced by the rich collections of American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts held by Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. She notes her good fortune of working in our two great “attic states:” Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Each Commonwealth has tremendous inventory of historic material, great institutions, and citizens who treasure their inherited and collected items. Cain appears on the television Antiques Roadshow as an appraiser of decorative and folk arts.

American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts

A Chippendale Carved and Figured Walnut Tall Case Clock

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