AN AMERICAN FEDERAL EMPIRE MAHOGANY SHELF CLOCK
early 19th century, by Eli and Samuel Terry, Plymouth, Connecticut, the painted wooden dial with Arabic chapters within a reverse-painted glazed door decorated with a scene of a municipal building within a landscape, enclosing a pendulum and weights, with labels to interior “Patent Clocks/Invented by Eli Terry…”, with columnar supports to sides surmounted by a […]