William Cummens
Tall Case Clock
1789
Physical Qualities
Mahogany, light and dark wood, gilt, brass, metal, paint, glass, 96 x 20 in. (243.8 x 50.8 cm.)
Dial: 18 1/2 x 13 in. (47 x 33 cm.)
Bonnet: 22 1/4 in. (56.5 cm.)
Case: 67 3/4 x 22 in. (172.1 x 55.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Margaret Maund
Object Number
1931.18.7
Willard style
Dial description: English imported white dial; hemispheres on the dial identified as "New Holland" for Australia. This places it before 1817 when the English changed the name of New Holland to Australia.
Works description: 8-day works
Case description: Case maker-unknown. Case date 1790-1810. Woods-mahogany, mahogany veneer, light and dard wood inlay, brass Doric column capitals and stop-fluting.
Description of mediums: mahogany veneer, light and dark wood inlays; gilt brass; painted metal; glass; replaced finials, replaced feet
Miller, Edgar G., Jr., American Antique Furniture, New York: Dover Publications, 1937, #1850 p.932, #1863 p. 937.
Palmer, Book of American Clocks, Macmillan, 1950, p.175.
Elder, William Voss III, American Decorative Arts of the Revolutionary Period. Maryland Heritage, 1976. Cat 77, p. 102.
Inscribed: Label: "Nelson Coleman III Ltd/May 1975"
