Clock, Wall
- Object Name:
- Clock, Wall
- Object ID:
- 1972.089.033
- Creator:
- Chandler, Abiel & Company
Clockmaker - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1829-1830
- Description:
- Wall Clock. Made by Abiel Chandler & Company, Concord, NH; 1829-1830. "Banjo" type. Brass spired ball finial on a splayed plinth; circular glass door enclosing dial having brass bezel and spring catch; pierced brass side brackets; glass throat and lower door panels in convex molded, veneered frames. Panels decorated with reverse painting. Enframed scene in lower door panel bordered in gilt and depicting a chariot with driver being pulled by two horses past the sun; executed in shades of gray, brown, pink, yellow, yellow-green, and white against a background of light brown and gray; clear glass reserve at center for pendulum view hole. Throat panel decorated with vertical row of overlapping stylized leaves, decreasing in size from bottom to top and alternating in color from gold to silver; latter having red centers; orange and gilt border surrounding leaves. Area of glass panels surrounding decoration painted white. Winding key latch on lower door.
Round painted iron dial with roman hour numerals and spear-shaped steel hour and minute hands. "A. Chandler & Co / Concord" in black script below center of dial. Winding hole above and to right of center. Eight-day brass movement.
Iron hanger. Several nail holes in lower backboard. Panel frames of mahogany with mahogany veneer. Roman numeral "III" chiseled on both back of lower door frame and front of lower door case on right side. Handwritten paper label glued to inside of lower case on left side apparently reding: "P M Haynes / Hebron N.H / April 4 1917".
Separately stored parts: winding key, lead weight (rectangular), pendulum. - Material:
- Glass
Metal
Brass
Wood
Mahogany - Dimensions:
- H-34 W-10 D-4 inches
- Provenance:
- Clock by A. Chandler & Co., Concord, New Hampshire, which was a father-son partnership of Major Timothy Chandler (1762-1848) and Abiel Chandler (1807-1881). Name of P. M. Haynes, Hebron, NH recorded for cleaning or repair, 1917. The clock was purchased by donor, Charles Parsons (1904-1988), in 1970 from Helen (Mrs. George Willis) Chandler of Hebron, New Hampshire. Helen and her husband had received the clock as a wedding gift in 1912, from his great aunts Ann Maria Chandler (1834-1924) and Huldah Atwood Chandler Emmons (1823-1920), neither of whom had children. Ann Maria and Huldah were two grandchildren of Abiel Chandler (1765-1854), younger brother of Major Timothy Chandler. Part of a large clock collection including not only clocks made in N.H., but also several made elsewhere, acquired in N.H. by the donor and probably used here.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Charles S. Parsons
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