Description
with poplar secondary wood. With a broken-scroll pediment, tombstone door, and 4 fully turned columns on the hood. Waist and base have rope, baluster, and ring-turned quarter columns. Waist door with fancily scroll-cut crest and figured cherry, veneered oval decoration; with additional veneered decoration below door. Raised-panel base with oval veneered in figured cherry, deeply scalloped skirt, and bracket feet. Although the cherry is veneered, the curly maple is all solid with fantastic figure. The works, which may be original, are an 8-day Black Forest movement signed on the back of the dial Felix Dold, and with polychrome-painted decoration with flowers in the spandrels and in the dial arch. An exceptional example of early Ohio cabinetmaking in a fine, old finish, ca 1820; 94" high x 18.5" wide x 11" deep.From the Estate of John Auraden of Hamilton & Fairhaven, Ohio.As above, old repair to hood moulding, a few minor veneer chips; VG.
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