Property from a Private Collection, Pennsylvania
FINE AND RARE CHIPPENDALE CARVED AND FIGURED WALNUT TALL CASE CLOCK, CASE BY WILLIAM CONNELL, MOVEMENT BY JOHN WOOD JR. (1736-1793), PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1770
Auction Closed
January 26, 08:38 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
FINE AND RARE CHIPPENDALE CARVED AND FIGURED WALNUT TALL CASE CLOCK, CASE BY WILLIAM CONNELL, MOVEMENT BY JOHN WOOD JR. (1736-1793), PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1770
the movement inscribed John Wood / Philadelphia; the inside of case with printed label inscribed MADE and SOLD BY WILLIAM CONNELL, CABINET-MAKER, In Third-Street, Corner of Spruce Street, PHILADELPHIA; where made be had, all Sorts of Cabinet and Chair Work, on the shortest Notice; retains a rich dry historic surface.
Height 94 in.
Property of a Southern Collector;
Replica Shoes 's New York, Important Americana, January 19, 2001, sale 7590, lot 779;
C.L. Prickett Antiques, Yardley, Pennsylvania.
William Connell was a cabinetmaker at Third and Spruce streets in Philadelphia. On March 31, 1769, he signed Benjamin Randolph's receipt book for "three pounds 1 Shilings & three Pence in full of all accts" and was listed as a joiner on the local tax lists in 1774. A closely related clock with works by Thomas Wagstaffe and a labeled case by William Connell is in the collection of Winterthur Museum (see Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, (New York: Macmillan, 1952), no. 207).