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THoM Product # 40046 - Willard Tall Case Clock

Catalog Description: Exquisitely detailed with solid brass fittings, weights and pendulum. Authentically recreated from an antique by Simon Willard of the well-known Massachusetts family of clockmakers.

Circa: 1790

Style: Hepplewhite

Period: Regency

Design © 1979

Simon Willard, of Roxbury, Massachusetts built clocks in New England for over seventy years and became one of this country's best known clockmakers. Apprenticed originally to John Morris of Hartford, and later working for his older brother Benjamin Willard, Simon developed skills and techniques that were emulated by many other clockmakers. Simon's younger brother Aaron was also a great clockmaker, almost equal to, but never surpassing Simon. Like most clockmakers of his times, Simon designed his clock cases, but seldom built them himself, preferring to leave that task to the skilled cabinetmakers while he concentrated on the clockworks themselves. Examples of his clocks are extremely expensive on today's antique market, but the originals sold from fifty to sixty dollars. The case of this fine piece was mahogany with inlaid panels of burl. The turned columns and heavily molded bonnet pediment makes this an extremely attractive clock. Many cases of this type were set off with turned brass finials and brass fretwork atop the arch of the bonnet.

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