Tall Clock
Jacob Diehl
ca. 1800 · Mahogany, satinwood veneer with white pine, yellow poplar · The American Wing
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.
- Artist
- Jacob Diehl
- Date
- ca. 1800
- Medium
- Mahogany, satinwood veneer with white pine, yellow poplar
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1980
