A CHIPPENDALE WALNUT VENEERED TALL-CASE CLOCK

DIAL SIGNED BY JOHN WOOD, JR. (1736-1793), PHILADELPHIA, 1760-1793

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A CHIPPENDALE WALNUT VENEERED TALL-CASE CLOCK
Dial signed by John Wood, Jr. (1736-1793), Philadelphia, 1760-1793
The rectangular molded cornice above a conforming case fitted with an arched glazed door opening to a brass dial centering Arabic and Roman chapter rings with "JOHN WOOD PHILADE:" enclosing a sweep seconds ring and calendar aperture with cast-brass spandrels surmounted by a painted moon-face dial, all flanked by freestanding colonettes over a coved mid-molding above a waisted case centering a rectangular and thumbmolded door with coved upper corners, all flanked by fluted quarter columns, over a rectangular box base with string inlay, on straight bracket feet
94in. high, 19in. wide, 10in. deep

拍品专文

John Wood, Jr. was a successful clockmaker in eighteenth century Philadelphia. Presumably trained by his father, John Wood, Sr., the two operated a flourishing business located on the corner of Front and Chestnut Streets in the 1750s. In 1760, John, Jr. inherited the business and advertised extensively in English and German newspapers until his death from yellow fever in 1793 (Edwin A. Battison and Patricia E. Kane, The American Clock, 1725-1865 (Greenwich, CT, 1973), p. 126; Kenneth A. Sposato, The Dictionary of American Clock and Watch Makers (White Plains, 1983), p. 187). A John Wood, Jr. tall-case clock with similar pediment is illustrated in Lita Solis-Cohen, "Living with Antiques: Castlefinn Farm, the Pennsylvania Home of Mrs. James Rawle II," Antiques (March 1971), p. 387.