Clock, Mirror

Object Name:

Clock, Mirror

Object ID:

1972.505.02

Creator:

Dutton, David (1792-1882)Clockmaker

Place of Origin:

Mont Vernon, NH

Date:

1840-1845

Description:

Mirror Clock. Made by David Dutton (1792-1882), Mont Vernon, NH; 1840-1845. Materials: mahogany, white pine and unidentified wood (case); tulip poplar (dial); secondary wood white pine and assorted hardwoods (movement). Vertically oriented rectangular door extending full width of clock between flat base and cornice. Scrolled gallery at front and sides; plinths at ends of front gallery. Two glazed panels in door -- clear glass above and mirror below. Upper panel 10 3/4" in height, lower panel 14 3/4". Stiles of door decorated on face with applied split balusters and applied cornerblocks. Turnings of reel, vase and cylindrical types. Front gallery, corner blocks and split balusters painted black with stenciled designs in bronze -- stylized flowers on gallery and corner blocks, anthemions on balusters. Door secured with brass hook and hinged on left side. Rectangular painted wooden dial, beneath upper glass panel, with arabic hour numeral and pierced, steel hour and minute hands matching in design. Painted gilt decoration, partly in relief, including wreath of scrolls and clustered dots around center of dial and scroll design in spandrels. A winding hole with brass grommet at either side of center. Boardman -type thirty-hour wooden movement with strike. Wood of turnings and corner blocks unidentified. Front gallery white pine. Remainder front surface veneered with mahogany. Sides painted with red and black tortoiseshell graining. Top painted black. Dial probably tulip poplar. Several nailholes in backboard. Bell and weight sheaves projecting through top of case. Much of inner surface stained red. Outer surface of backboard unplaned. Large printed label glued to inner surface of lower backboard reading in part: "Patent / Clocks, / Manufactured & Sold / by / David Dutton, / Mont Vernon, N. H.". Printed are several pencil inscriptions giving names and dates of cleanings and/or repairs from 1851 to 1910, including one in Hanover, N.H. in 1851 and in Concord in 1880 (see detailed list below). Further inscriptions on both surfaces on dial including one on back which appears to say "gilt". Piece of paper glued over knot on outer surface of backboard. Fragments of wall paper on bottom. Separately stored parts: pendulum bob, winding key.Pencil inscriptions: "Powiss (or Powers). Oct. 2_ 1910" "Dec. 1809 N. P. Holly" (perhaps this should be 1909) "[J. or G.] Putnam / Hanover / N.H." "cleaned Feb. 15 1851" "Feb. 1880 cleaned by D. H. Nelson / Concord, N.H."

Material:

Wood
Mahogany
Poplar
Pine
Brass
Iron
Glass

Dimensions:

H-35.25 W-16.5 D-5.75 inches

Provenance:

Clock with maker's label of David Dutton (1792-1882), Mont Vernon, NH. Clean/repair marks from Hanover, NH (1851) and Concord, NH (1880) suggest a New Hampshire history of ownership.

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Collection

People:

Nelson, D. H., Putnam, Holly, N. P., Dutton, David (1792-1882)

Subjects:

Manufacturing