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59. LEVI PITKIN OF EAST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT INLAID
MAHOGANY TALL CASE CLOCK, circa 1790s, the case of beautiful
proportions is band inlaid on the door and base panel and stands on slightly
splayed and flared feet with delicate returns. The clock waste is fitted with
a band inlaid rectangular door and the sides are fitted with quarter columns
which terminate in reeded capitals. The bonnet is embellished with scrolled
fretwork which supported with one fluted plinth flanked by two others and
three ball and spike brass finials. The painted iron dial is signed
“LEVI PITKIN – East Hartford and the time ring is painted with Roman
numeral hour figures and Arabic numerals are used for the five-minute
markers. The dial also displays the date of the month calendar and the seconds
are on a secondary dial. The four spandrels are delicately painted with flower
blossoms and the arch is decorated with a bird on a branch. The eight-day
clock is weight driven and the support plate to the dial signed WILSON.
Height 91 in. Width 18 ¾ in. 4,000/6,000
Levi Pitkin was born February 23, 1774 in East Hartford, Connecticut and apprenticed
with Daniel Burnap, an accomplished clockmaker/silversmith from Windsor,
Connecticut around 1787.
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