On View
On viewDwarf Tall Clocks
Artist
Joseph Mulliken
1765 - 1802
Dateca. 1797
Dimensions104.06 × 25.38 × 17.77 cm (41 × 10 × 7 in.)
MarkingsDial engraved outside chapter ring with rococo scrolls and leafage and in arched top: "Joseph Mulliken [in italics]/ CONCORD"
Credit LineSmall Clock, Joseph Mulliken, Concord, Ma, about 1797. Concord Museum Collection, Gift of Joseph and Anne Pellegrino, the Cummings Davis Society, and anonymous donor; 1994.11.1.
Object number1994.11.1
DescriptionMiniature eight-day clock. Cherry, white pine, brass, steel. Case attributed to Ammi White (b. 1754). In the form of a reduced-size tall clock; fully developed case with wooden finials and pierced fret, arched waist door, straight bracketed feet. Brass eight-day movement with rack and snail strike; engraved brass dial, filed steel hands. Jelly label with an ink inscription states "This clock was my/great grandfather's/...Collins/E. Andover, N.H./Ellen Wells Clay."
Associated components include two weights (1994.11.2.1 and .2), pendulum (1994.11.3), clock face (1994.11.4), bonnet (1994.11.5), and clock key (1994.11.6).
Associated components include two weights (1994.11.2.1 and .2), pendulum (1994.11.3), clock face (1994.11.4), bonnet (1994.11.5), and clock key (1994.11.6).