{"id":5884,"date":"2018-10-20T18:57:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T18:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/?page_id=5884"},"modified":"2021-12-10T12:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T12:25:14","slug":"1815-pennsylvania-inlaid-federal-mahogany-eight-day-sweep-seconds-tall-case-clock-by-samuel-breneisen-automaton-zodiac-dial","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/new-additions\/sold-tall-case-grandfather-clocks\/1815-pennsylvania-inlaid-federal-mahogany-eight-day-sweep-seconds-tall-case-clock-by-samuel-breneisen-automaton-zodiac-dial\/","title":{"rendered":"1815 Pennsylvania Inlaid Federal Mahogany Eight Day Sweep Seconds Tall Case Clock by Samuel Breneisen Automaton & Zodiac Dial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samuel Breneisen C.. 1815<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Samuel Breneisen worked in Reading during the last quarter of the 18th C and continued into the 19th C.\u00a0 He appears in the local tax records throughout the 1790’s and into the early 1800’s.\u00a0\u00a0 He had two sons that were trained as clockmakers: George and Samuel Jr.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He also operated a shop in Adamstown, Lancaster Co. in 1807 and in all likelihood operated shops in Lancaster & Reading towards the end of the Federal period.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He died in 1837.<\/p>\n

The clock in this listing is a wonderful example from the Federal period with quarter fan and herringbone inlay.\u00a0 The rich Mahogany case with choice crotch grain and wonderful rich patina.\u00a0\u00a0 The broken arch scroll bonnet with applied open fretwork decoration with a center plinth and a wonderful period brass finial.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The glazed bonnet door flanked by turned mahogany columns with interesting brass capitals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The door opens to the BEST American painted iron dial with polychrome spandrel decoration, gilt Zodiac decoration in the arch, lunar phase dial with an American flag flying on the ship, sweep seconds, calendar and a bobbing flying eagle automaton feature in an oval aperture above the center arbor.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The dial\u00a0retains the original signature by\u00a0Samuel Breneisen.\u00a0\u00a0 Below the cove molding is an inlaid panel that continues to an arch shaped waist door with quarter fan and herringbone inlay all flanked by fluted quarter columns.\u00a0\u00a0 The base with\u00a0inset panel continues the inlay theme\u00a0with beautiful quarter fan decoration.\u00a0\u00a0 This monumental case stands at 101 1\/2 inches tall and rests on it’s original ball feet.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The works have been professionally serviced and the clock runs great.<\/p>\n

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Samuel Breneisen C.. 1815 Samuel Breneisen worked in Reading during the last quarter of the 18th C and continued into the 19th C.\u00a0 He appears in the local tax records throughout the 1790’s and into the early 1800’s.\u00a0\u00a0 He had … 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-5884","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5884","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=5884"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7600,"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5884\/revisions\/7600"}],"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=5884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}