Description:
Tall clock with a thirty hour brass movement, housed in a narrow maple case with a pine backboard, made by Preserved Clapp of Amherst, Massachusetts. The clock was probably made to be hung exposed on a bracket, but was put in the case around 1800. The case, which has been refinished, was probably grained originally. The case is topped with a gilded wooden eagle and two flame finials on vase plinths over elaborate fret work, over a molded hood top. The hood is decorated with colonnettes and cutwork around the glass frame. The lower section of the dial has hours and minutes. The lower body of the case has a carved fan and broadly fluted pilasters along the sides. The clock is supported on molded flat base. The clock was owned by the Stebbins family, having been taken to Orlando, Florida by Lucius Stebbins, an early settler there and direct descendent of Preserved Clapp.
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