Tall Clock

Jacob Diehl American

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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.

Tall Clock, Jacob Diehl (1776–1858), Mahogany, satinwood veneer with white pine, yellow poplar, American

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Tall Clock, Jacob Diehl (1776–1858), Mahogany, satinwood veneer with white pine, yellow poplar, American
Tall Clock, Jacob Diehl (1776–1858), Mahogany, satinwood veneer with white pine, yellow poplar, American

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