ANTIQUE MASS. AMERICAN TALL CASE GRANDFATHER 91\" CLOCK CIRCA 1800 JAMES DOULL For Sale

ANTIQUE MASS. AMERICAN TALL CASE GRANDFATHER 91\" CLOCK CIRCA 1800 JAMES DOULLwith pendulum, weights and keys. Size: 90.5\" tall x 20\" wide x 10.\" deep. Base size: 19.5\" x 10.\" deep. Fine Birch finish.Dial and case fit perfectly. Has winding and door keys and pendulum. Also have the weights. Strike bell replaced with a later gong. Bell is gone. Case is refinished, the dial cleaned, some fret work losses and there is some warping to door as it does not shut properly. One panel of glass has a crack on one side of hood. Do have a second hand. James Doull Tall Case Clock . The plaque of the history of the clock was furnished by the consignor who had inherited the clock. Price is FINAL.

American (Charlestown, Massachusetts), ca 1815-1820. The tall cherry case with fretted pediment, brass capitols on bonnet columns, and those of thereeded quarter columns on the waist, has an inlaid door with the hold on small button feet. The case appears to be the work of a craftsman familiar with the shop practices of Thomas Seymour (1794-1816). Nearly every tall clock produced by James Doull with an over-sized dial is housed in a case produced by the Seymour cabinet shops. This clock case has attributes similar to Seymour\'s work, but with nuances that indicate another hand, and later date of manufacture. The works by James Doull(Charleston, w. 1810(?)-?) with eight-day time and strike, seconds and calendar dials and brass movements; ht. 91 in. (with finials).

JamesDoull arrived in American in 1807 and began working as an apprentice in the shop of Aaron Willard. After he set up his own shop in Charlestown, MA, many of the cases for his clocks appear to have been made by Thomas Seymour, and those with the splayed French feet have been accredited to Seymour. This case was later feet. See Mussey,The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour,pp. 55-56, and Foley,Willard\'s Patent Timepieces, p. 243.

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