Tall case brass dial clock, ca. 1770.

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Tall case brass dial clock, ca. 1770.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463297237

Mahogany tall-case clock with broken arch pediment ending in carved rosettes and centering three ball and flame finials. Elaborately carved tympanum above glazed tombstone door flanked by freestanding fluted colonettes. Painted face inset into lunette with eyes that swing from side to side with each movement of the pendulum. Blind fretwork above shaped door at waist with fluted quarter columns. Fluted quarter columns also flank applied shaped panel at base.

H: 102" W: 17.75" D: 9.25".

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Dowdney, Burrows, ca. 1768-1771.

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Burrows Dowdney was a clock maker working in Philadelphia during the 1760s and 1770s. From the description of Tall case brass dial clock, ca. 1770. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 463297237 ...

Affleck, Thomas (American cabinetmaker, 1740-1795)

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Apprenticed as a cabinetmaker in Edinburgh and London, Thomas Affleck emigrated to Philadelphia in 1763. His clients included wealthy Philadelphians, some of them fellow Quakers. He also was politically active during the Revolutionary era. For more biographical information, see Philadelphia: Three Centuries of Art (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976), pp. 98-99. From the description of Chest, ca. 1763-1775. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 770378980 From the descripti...

Shields, Thomas W. 1849?-1920

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Thomas Shields is in List of Philadelphia Silversmiths and Allied Artificers, by Maurice Brix, as a goldsmith who advertised in newspapers from 1769 to 1776, and appeared in city directories 1785-1794. From the description of Daybook, 1775-1791. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122573552 ...