Shelf Clock | Yale University Art Gallery

1800–1810

Medium: Mahogany, mahogany and other inlays; back board, white pine
Dimensions: 31 3/4 × 11 3/16 × 4 7/8 in. (80.6 × 28.4 × 12.4 cm)
other (uppper case frame): 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)
other (upper case frame): 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)
other (Lower case): 13 3/4 × 11 3/16 × 4 7/8 in. (34.9 × 28.4 × 12.4 cm)
other (lower case frame): 10 1/2 × 4 3/8 in. (26.7 × 11.1 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Charles Stetson, B.A. 1900
Accession Number: 1954.37.22
Geography: Made in Boston, Massachusetts
Culture: American
Period: 19th century
Classification: Timepieces
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Provenance

Charles D. Stetson (1878–1953), Boston; bequeathed to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1953

Bibliography

Edwin A. Battison and Patricia E. Kane, The American Clock, 1725–1865: The Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1973), 180–181, no. 40, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

shelf clocks

"Aaron Willard / BOSTON" painted on dial.

Inside right side of hood in pencil; 'D. Oder Jun 19th 1874."

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