A CHIPPENDALE PINE TALL-CASE CLOCK

DIAL SIGNED BY GEORGE SOLLIDAY, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1810

Details

A CHIPPENDALE PINE TALL-CASE CLOCK
Dial signed by George Solliday, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, circa 1810
The molded broken swan's-neck pediment centered and flanked by three flame-and-urn finials above an arched glazed door opening to a white-painted dial with Arabic chapter rings centering a calender aperture and Geo Salliday BUCKS CO enclosed by floral and fruit spandrels surmounted by a sheaf-of-wheat lunette, all painted in shades of green, brown, cream, red, black and gilding, all flanked by colonettes over a waisted case fitted with a thumbmolded cupboard door with shell-carved crest flanked by fluted quarter-columns above a box base with fluted quarter-columns, on ogee bracket feet, the japanned decoration later
92in. high, 20in. wide, 11in. deep

Provenance

Joseph Kinding, Jr. and Son, York, Pennsylvania

Lot Essay

The Solliday family of Bucks County included several clockmakers working in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although a George Solliday is known to have worked in Montgomery County, the marriage records of the German Reformed Church, Tohickon, Bucks County include the marriage of a George Solida to Elizabeth Shellenberg in 1811. For more on the Solliday family, see Eckhardt, Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers (New York, 1955), p. 220. The clock bears an early layer of reddish-brown paint, which may indicate its original paint-grained surface.

More from Important American Furniture, Folk Art & Chinese Porcelain

View All