Clock, Shelf
- Object Name:
- Clock, Shelf
- Object ID:
- 1947.025.26
- Creator:
- Jerome, Chauncey (1793-1868)
Clockmaker ; Ingraham, Elias Company - Place of Origin:
- New Haven, CT (case)/Bristol, CT (clock works)
- Date:
- 1845-1855
- Description:
- Shelf Clock. "Ogee" type. Vertically oriented rectangular dial with two glazed panels--clear glass above and reverse, transfer printed and painted scene below. Lower panel slightly greater in height. Front of case, surrounding door, molded in shallow ogee curve with fillet at all four outer edges. City street scene depicted in low panel labeled at bottom as "ST. GEOR[ ]RGH" (correct identification of image is "the Capitol at Washington looking down Pennsylvania Avenue"). Oval reserve, serving as pendulum view hole, obliterating part of title. Scene is a transfer print, handcolored in yellow, orange, blue, green and brown. Door secured with brass catch. Square, painted wooden dial beneath upper glass panel, with Roman hour numerals and steel, hour and minute hands, differing in design. Two winding holes below center of dial. Brass eight-day movement, stamped: "E. INGRAHAM CO. / BRISTOL. CT. USA." and "29", with strike. Case veneered on front and sides. Top and bottom of pine. Top painted black. Weight sheaves projecting through top of case. Brass hanger. Three nail holes in lower backboard. Dial probably tulip poplar. Large, printed label glued to inner surface of lower backboard, reading in part: "BRASS / CLOCKS, / MANUFACTURED AND SOLD BY / CHAUNCEY JEROME, NEW HAVEN, CONN. / ...BENHAM, PRINTER. / 55[ ], NEW HAVEN". Pencil inscription on inner surface upper door rail reading: "R. MORRILL [ ] 1875". Circular saw marks evident on most of pine elements. Movement is a replacement.
- Material:
- Wood
Mahogany
Glass
Metal - Dimensions:
- H-25.75 W-15.375 D-4.125 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Mary Thompson (Mason) Tilney (1855-1914), mother of the donor, from farm houses near her summer home in Pleasant Valley, NH (near Wolfeboro), between 1895 and 1913.
- Credit Line:
- The Tilney Collection, Gift of Jessie M. Tilney, in Memory of Robert Fingland Tilney and Mary Mason Tilney
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