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Tall Clock

Jacob Diehl American
ca. 1800
Not on view
This handsome clock case is highly characteristic of tall clock cases produced in Berks County, Pennsylvania in the Federal period, due to the rayed crest centered by a pictorial inlay tablet and the bands of light wood veneer inlaid with geometric dark wood stringing. Jacob Diehl of Reading, Pennsylvania, the maker of the works, signed the oversized fourteen-inch dial in black paint in the style of a copperplate engraver.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Tall Clock
  • Maker: Jacob Diehl (1776–1858)
  • Date: ca. 1800
  • Geography: Made in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Mahogany, satinwood veneer with white pine,
    yellow poplar
  • Dimensions: 8 ft. 8 in. × 19 1/2 in. × 21 1/2 in. (264.2 × 49.5 × 54.6 cm)
  • Credit Line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1980
  • Object Number: 1980.458
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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