THE JABEZ BOWEN CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY BLOCK-AND-SHELL TALL-CASE CLOCK

Lot 568
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$ 63 000
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Lot 568 | THE JABEZ BOWEN CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY BLOCK-AND-SHELL TALL-CASE CLOCK
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$ 50 000 – 80 000
THE JABEZ BOWEN CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY BLOCK-AND-SHELL TALL-CASE CLOCK
THE DIAL SIGNED BY GEORGE SOMMERSALL (ACTIVE 1765-1785), LONDON; THE CASE PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, 1765-1785
the composite brass dial engraved Geo Sommersall/ London; feet replaced and the finials probably 19th-century replacements
84 ½ in. high, 20 ¼ in. wide, 11 5/8 in. deep




Provenance

Deputy Governor Jabez Bowen (1739-1815), Providence, Rhode Island
Henry Bowen (1785-1867), Providence, son
William Horatio Bowen (1824-1897), Providence, son
Henry Bowen (1852-1926), Providence, son
Donald Flagg Bowen (1892-1982), son
Kenneth and Paulette Tuttle, Gardiner, Maine, 1984
G.K.S. Bush, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1997
A private collection



Literature

Donald F. Bowen, ‘A Clock Case by John Goddard,’ The Antiquarian vol. XV: no. 2 (August 1930), pp. 37, 74.
Kenneth and Paulette Tuttle, advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (May 1984), p. 989.
G.K.S. Bush, Inc., advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (September 1997), p. 214.
Wendy A. Cooper and Tara L. Gleason, "A Different Rhode Island Block-and-Shell Story: Providence Provenances and Pitch-Pediments," American Furniture 1999, Luke Beckerdite, ed. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1999), pp. 173, 175, 188–189, 191, figs. 10, 31, 34.
Kenneth E. Tuttle Antiques, advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (January 2006), p. 15.
Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830 (New Haven, Conn., 2016), pp. 112, fn. 21, 316, fig. 2, 320, fn. 4–5, 330, fn. 4.
The Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery, RIF2108.
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