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Not on viewFrench Clock
Dateca. 1825
Dimensions53.34 × 3.43 × 12.06 cm (21 × 1 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Cummings E. Davis (1886)
Object numberF1403
DescriptionShelf clock. Mahogany, with gilt and alabaster. Dial supported on a base having four alabaster columns and a drapery swag, backed by mirrors. Above are two gilded brackets in the form of lions basking under conventional palms. Gilded eagle tops the dial.
Tolman Catalog, Tolman Number 25: "French Clock, bought by Asa Davis, father of Mr. C. E. Davis, at an auction sale of the effects of Joseph Bonaparte, at Bordentown, in 1831; brought to Concord by C. E. D. in 1849."
Tolman Catalog, Tolman Number 25: "French Clock, bought by Asa Davis, father of Mr. C. E. Davis, at an auction sale of the effects of Joseph Bonaparte, at Bordentown, in 1831; brought to Concord by C. E. D. in 1849."
Object number: TH92.4
Object number: TH92.3
Object number: D1710