Tall case clock

Creator:: Gere, Isaac, 1771-1812
Published/Created:: Hartford, Hartford county, Connecticut, United States
Northampton, Hampton county, Massachusetts, United States
ca. 1790
Physical Description:: 89 x 19 x 10 1/2 in.
Materials:: Cherry
Notes:: Sack catalogue description: Chippendale cherry grandfather clock by Isaac Gere, Northampton, Massachusetts, an important example of the Connecticut Valley school of cabinetmakers whose interpretations of Philadelphia designs had a Yankee flavor all its own; detail of fret-carved hood illustrated, one of the highest developed on a Connecticut clock. Hartford, Connecticut or Northampton, Massachusetts; now in Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan.
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Bibliography: Book: American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1990), vol. 2, p. 303, pl. 739.
Variant Titles:: Chippendale cherry tall case clock
Topics:: Decoration and ornament--Chippendale style
Furniture--United States
Period/Style:: Chippendale
Culture:: American
Accession Number:: 2062
Genre:: tall case clocks (AAT)
Format:: Image
Physical Object
Content Type:: Furnishings & Decorative Arts
Prints & Photographs
Rights:: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement
Access Restrictions:: Public
Source Title:: Israel Sack, Inc., Archive
Source Created:: New York, New York, United States
1957–1990
Source Note:: Sack, April 1965
This information is taken from the Israel Sack Furniture Archive and may not reflect current scholarship.
Folder:: 10976 nc, cab4dw4 misc end tiff_complete
Yale Collection:: Yale University Art Gallery
Digital Collection:: Israel Sack Furniture Archive
oid pointer:: 10992207
OID:: 12116949
PID:: digcoll:1024576