Rusty and Kate Donohue
Americana Antiques

An example from Providence, RI, with A-style works (used almost exclusively on Rhode Island clocks).  The clock is in excellent working order, the gold leafing has been retouched, the lower églomisé panel is the oroiginal, but the painted scene has been retouched.  Size:  36" tall (without the finial) x 10" wide.

Price:  $2,500                                          (KR-44-21)

The smaller wall clock probably evolved from the English lantern clock or wag-on-the-wall clock.  Its debut in America was the "Improved Patent Timepiece," better known as the banjo clock, patented in 1802 by Simon Willard of Boston.

The style of these clocks typically featured a brass finial above a circular clock dial, flared throat with églomisé panel flanked by pierced brass brackets, above a rectantular reverse-painted glass door opening to a brass pendant and works, above a fluted and sherule-mounted base ending in an acorn drop.

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