Mantel Clock
Maker
Maker unknown
(French, possibly)
Retailer
Charles H. Schiller
(active Utica, New York, 1847-1899)
Date1870-1890
MediumSlate, brass, enamel, glass
DimensionsOverall: 20 3/4 x 14 x 7 1/2in. (52.7 x 35.6 x 19.1cm)
ClassificationsT&E FOR TIMEKEEPING
Credit LineGift of Jane B. Sayre Bryant and David E. Bryant in memory of the Sayre Family
Terms
Object number86.46.135.1-2
DescriptionBlack slate case: Maker probably France; Egyptian revival mantel clock and cast mount winged mythological, 4-footed creature with human face (Assyrian?). Clock case is black slate; /gold and iridescent green decoration; face flanked by stylized moths in 4 corners and pharoah figures on left and right.On View
Not on viewCollections
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Label TextCharles Schiller, a Utica watchmaker who operated a store on Genesee Street in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, sold this clock. The clock case, however, may have come from a Connecticut factory, an area that produced a great extent of the middle-range clocks sold in the United States during this period.
