{"id":8768,"date":"2023-01-21T15:28:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T15:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/?page_id=8768"},"modified":"2023-01-21T16:07:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T16:07:02","slug":"peter-stretch-philadelphia-walnut-queen-anne-delaware-valley-tall-case-clock-c-1725","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/antique-clocks-for-sale\/early-american-tall-case-clocks\/pennsylvania-tall-case-clocks\/peter-stretch-philadelphia-walnut-queen-anne-delaware-valley-tall-case-clock-c-1725\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Stretch Philadelphia Walnut Queen Anne Delaware Valley Tall Case Clock C. 1725"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Stretch, Philadelphia<\/h1>\n

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Available for purchase: Peter Stretch Walnut Tall Case Clock formerly in the Collection of\u00a0 THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART<\/h1>\n

A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT TALL-CASE CLOCK<\/h1>\n

DIAL SIGNED BY PETER STRETCH (1670-1746); THE CASE ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN HEAD (1699-1754), PHILADELPHIA, 1720-1730<\/h1>\n

Details<\/h1>\n

A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT TALL-CASE CLOCK<\/h1>\n

DIAL SIGNED BY PETER STRETCH (1670-1746); THE CASE ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN HEAD (1699-1754), PHILADELPHIA, 1720-1730 The brass and silvered dial signed Peter Stretch\/ Philadelphia; the front of the front plate engraved John Willis 1788\/ IW; the base restored, 95 in. high, 20 \u00be in. wide, 10 \u00be in. deep<\/h1>\n

Provenance<\/h1>\n

Samuel Nice Pastorious (1863-1931), Germantown, Philadelphia<\/h1>\n

Literature<\/h1>\n

This clock is documented in\u00a0 Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Stretch: America\u2019s First Family of Clockmakers (Winterthur Museum, 2013), pp. 154-155, cat. 19. John Joseph Stoudt, Early Pennsylvania Arts and Crafts (New York, 1964), p. 131, fig. 97<\/h1>\n

The square dial and eight-day movement is closely to several others signed by Stretch from the 1720s. The early composite brass dial w\/ applied chapter ring, spandrels, seconds register, and engraved concentric rings around the winding holes.\u00a0 The makers name is engraved on an applied silvered brass plate.\u00a0 A calendar aperture appears below the name plate.\u00a0 Fleur-de-lis half-hour markers are engraved in the chapter ring in between the hour markers.\u00a0 The 8-day brass striking movement with recoil escapement and count wheel strike train.<\/h1>\n

The clock case is attributed to John Head and according to recent published research, Head’s account book recorded 42 clock cases made for Peter Stretch.\u00a0 Jay Robert Stiefel, \u201cPhiladelphia Cabinetmaking and Commerce, 1718-1753: The Account Book of John Head, Joiner,\u201d American Philosophical Society Bulletin, n.s. 1, no. 1 (Winter 2001), n.p.).<\/h1>\n

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Peter Stretch, Philadelphia Available for purchase: Peter Stretch Walnut Tall Case Clock formerly in the Collection of\u00a0 THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT TALL-CASE CLOCK DIAL SIGNED BY PETER STRETCH (1670-1746); THE CASE ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN HEAD … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":428,"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-8768","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8768","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=8768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8775,"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8768\/revisions\/8775"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamsbrown.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}