About the Artwork
Tall Case Clock
between 1785 and 1790
Frederick Maus
active 1785 - 1793
American
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Walnut, white pine, tulip wood, brass, glass and lead
Overall: 101 × 22 1/8 × 10 1/2 inches (256.5 × 56.2 × 26.7 cm)
Timepieces
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
44.44
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, lower center of face: Frederick Maus | Philadelphia
Signed and inscribed, lower center of face: Frederick Maus | Philadelphia
Provenance
1944-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Bulletin of the DIA, 23, 27 (1944): p. 59 (ill.).
Distin, William H. and Robert Bishop. The American Clock. New York, 1976, p. 40 (ill. 62 and 62a.) [See also p. 322.]
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Frederick Maus, Tall Case Clock, between 1785 and 1790, walnut, white pine, tulip wood, brass, glass and lead. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 44.44.
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