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Property of a New York Family
Property of a New York Family
Property of a New York Family
112 Large Giltwood Gallery-Wall Timepiece with Carved Eagle
113 Federal Bell-Flower Inlaid Mahogany Lolling Chair
114 Federal Mahogany Plant Stand
Aaron Willard, Boston MA, 1805-1810
Probably Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1800-1815
The painted wooden dial is signed “Aaron Willard”
It is extremely rare for a lolling chair to exhibit bellflower carving on both the arm supports and the legs.
The square top with raised reeded rim continuing to circular reeded legs with a medial plant shelf with a reeded lip, terminating in bulb turned feet with brass casters
Importantly, the brass eight day works of this clock are diestamped “A. Willard/Boston”
$4,000-8,000
New York, circa 1810
painted convex wooden dial with weight and key
H. 30 1/2 in.; W. (top) 9 in.; W. (bottom of lower shelf) 13 1/2 in.
h. 44 inches
$2,000-4,000
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Provenance: The Harding Greene Estate, Nantucket, Massachusetts until 1994
$15,000-25,000 Provenance: Kirtland H. Crump Antique Clocks, July 15, 1999, Madison, CT. Bill of sale included with this lot.
Literature: A virtually identical stand is at Winterthur and pictured in American Furniture of the Federal Period by Joseph Downs, page 383; The two stands may possibly have been made as a pair.
Literature: Illustrated and discussed Paul J. Foley, “Willard’s Patent Timepieces”, Meridian Printing, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 2002, p. 6, figs. 8 (overall) and fig. 9, illustration of movement with plate stamped “A. Willard”
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