Mantel Clock

Title:: Mantel Clock
Description:: Gothic (Ogee) arch-shaped veneered case on a rectangular base. The inset top panel has a round white enameled metal clock face with a painted black dial and trefoil hands. It has a hinged door with round glass over the clock face and a square panel below with a transferred printed image of a village green (possibly the Lexington Green with the tomb of the Lexington Minutemen) with figures in the foreground. There are eglomise painted color accents, a brass bell and coil attached to the inside back wall and a printed label.
Creator:: J.J. Beals & Co.
Date:: 1840–1860
Format:: Objects/Artifacts
Genre:: brass (alloy)
carving (processes)
verre églomisé
enameling
glass (material)
mahogany (wood)
veneer (material)
metal
painting (coating)
paper (fiber product)
printing (process)
wire
wood (plant material)
mantel clocks
timepieces
Location:: Historic New England
Collection (local):: Digitized Museum Collections
Subjects:: scenes (depictions)
Brass
Glass
Mahogany Veneer
Wire
Unidentified Metal
Unidentified Paper
Enameled
Painted
Eglomise
Carved
Transfer Printed
Gothic Revival
Scenic
Places:: Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Newbury
Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.)
Extent:: 18.75 in. x 10.375 in. x 3.875 in. (H x W x D)
Link to Item:: http://gusn.us/51011
Terms of Use:: Rights status not evaluated.
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