Clock, Tall Case
- Object Name:
- Clock, Tall Case
- Object ID:
- 1973.036
- Creator:
- Chadwick, Joseph (1787-1868) -- Clockmaker
- Place of Origin:
- Boscawen, New Hampshire (movement)/Concord-Boscawen area (case)
- Date:
- 1810-1820
- Description:
- Tall Case Clock. Movement made by Joseph Chadwick (1787-1868), Boscawen, NH; 1810-1820. Materials: birch and mahogany; wax; brass; iron (dial); secondary wood white pine. Arched hood decorated with applied open fretwork crest and three brass spired ball finials on reeded plinths. Freestanding, reeded colonnettes at front corners, supporting cornice which is arched at center. No frieze. Colonnettes have brass capitals and bases. Engaged, quarter-round colonnettes at rear corners. Glazed door having arched top and brass knob. Arched sidelights. Waist with cove molding at top; reeded quarter-columns at front corners, with brass capitals and bases; and a rectangular door with applied molding at edges, steel lock, brass escutcheon and steel key. Base with scotia molded top and tall straight bracket feet. A rectangular panel with incurved corners formed of light line was stringing decorates both waist door and front of base. At the center of each of these "panels" is a lozenge shaped design outlined with light and dark line stringing and reciprocal light and dark scalloped stringing, probably all executed in wax.
Painted iron dial with arched top. Spandrels and center of arched top decorated with floral sprays in pink and blue with green foliage. Scrolled gilt borders, executed in relief, surrounding spandrel designs. Oval gilt border, surrounding floral design in arched top, composed of intertwined undulating bands and raised dots. Roman hour numerals; arabic minute numerals; seconds dial above center; calendar aperture below; two winding holes with brass grommets. Pierced steel hour and minute hands differing in design; latter serpentine in outline. "Joseph Chadwick" in script below center of dial. Eight-day brass movement with strike.
Mahogany fret. Remainder of primary wood stained birch. No bottom boards in case. Some nail holes in backboard. Scribe marks on inner surface of backboard, hood area. Hood covered with paper on top. "688" painted on inner surface of backboard. Paper label on outer surface of backboard, handwritten: "MARTHA O".
Separately stored parts: pendulum, key, two sheet iron canister weights. (Note: no key found during Decorative Arts Survey --Sept., 2006.) - Material:
- Wood
Birch
Metal
Glass - Dimensions:
- H-92 W-20.75 D-10.25 inches
- Provenance:
- Clock with maker's mark of Joseph Chadwick (1787-1868) of Boscawen, New Hampshire.
Acquired by donor -- Charles S. Parsons (1904-1988) -- in 1973 from Herschel Burt of Exeter, N.H. (donor purchased for $1,500). Part of a large clock (and related materials) collection including not only clocks made in New Hampshire, but also several made elsewhere, acquired in New Hampshire by the donor and probably used here. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Charles S. Parsons
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