{"id":4810,"date":"2017-07-08T15:13:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T15:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/?page_id=4810"},"modified":"2021-12-10T20:55:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:55:20","slug":"william-huston-philadelphia-no-20-walnut-chippendale-tall-case-clock-c-1770","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/new-additions\/sold-tall-case-grandfather-clocks\/william-huston-philadelphia-no-20-walnut-chippendale-tall-case-clock-c-1770\/","title":{"rendered":"William Huston Philadelphia Walnut Chippendale Tall Case Clock C. 1770"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0William Huston Philadelphia Walnut Chippendale tall case clock, with a finely engraved composite brass dial\u00a0with name boss inscribed\u00a0“William Huston Philadelphia No. 20”.\u00a0\u00a0 William Huston was a Colonial Philadelphia Clock & Watchmaker at work before the Revolutionary War.\u00a0\u00a0 According to Eckhardt: Pennsylvania Clocks & Clockmakers he built a house on Front St. South of Chestnut that was bequeathed in the will of John Wood Jr.\u00a0The broken arch scroll top bonnet\u00a0with finely carved rosette terminals along with flamed finials resting on chimney blocks with fluted facings.\u00a0\u00a0 A pair of block and turned columns flank the arched bonnet door.\u00a0\u00a0 The waist section with tombstone shaped waist door attached with original cast brass “strap hinges” continuing to a base section with applied panel all resting on straight bracket feet.\u00a0 The overall dimensions of the clock are 94 X 19 1\/2 X 10 inches with a 12 X 16 1\/2 inch dial, 9 3\/4 inch time track and 1 1\/4 inch Roman numerals.\u00a0 Examples by William Huston are in major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The inner surface of the backboard along with the back of the waist door bear numerous documented repairs including early 19th C chalk signatures by John Pittman a Philadelphia\u00a0clock & watchmaker at work C. 1818.\u00a0 I have owned many early Delaware Valley tall case clocks over the years with chalk repair notes by Pittman inside the case.<\/p>\n

Condition: This is an original clock: dial, works and case with the following repairs and conservation.\u00a0 The dial has been cleaned and very gently silvered.\u00a0 The works have been completely overhauled and the clock runs, strikes and indexes very nicely.\u00a0\u00a0 The case has been refinished and\u00a0at some point in its\u00a0history during the late 19th Century (based upon pencil repair dates\/pencil inscriptions\u00a0on the back of the door) an expert cabinetmaker replaced\/restored the waist door.\u00a0\u00a0Upon close inspection you will see an additional slot in the left\u00a0case stile where\u00a0the original door lock engaged along with\u00a0a \u00a0slot that captures the present door lock.\u00a0\u00a0 The backboard is original and has not been cut.\u00a0 \u00a0 The bonnet glass is old and wavy with fresh putty holding it in the frame.\u00a0 Original lead filled brass shell weights, pendulum winding key.\u00a0 All in all a nice example of an early signed & numbered Philadelphia Chippendale Tall Case Clock.<\/p>\n

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William Huston Philadelphia \u00a0William Huston Philadelphia Walnut Chippendale tall case clock, with a finely engraved composite brass dial\u00a0with name boss inscribed\u00a0“William Huston Philadelphia No. 20”.\u00a0\u00a0 William Huston was a Colonial Philadelphia Clock & Watchmaker at work before the Revolutionary War.\u00a0\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":7908,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4810","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4810"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5621,"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4810\/revisions\/5621"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}