195.Ĭase stiles for movement support are restored, case refinished, hood glass cracked, object right front foot facing re-glued, all feet and blocking are the original, movement cleaned, dial probably re-silvered, period weights, pendulum. The distinctive "quadrant" blocking in the base of this clock is also found on a bureau attributed to these cabinet makers, Kugleman, Kugleman and Lionetti, p. The case of this example is closely related to examples attributed to Eliphalet Chapin or Simeon Loomis of East Windsor, Connecticut as described in Kugleman, Kugleman and Lionetti, Connecticut Valley Furniture, p. For additional information on this deve opmental period in American clockmaking see Roberts, pp. Of the several known examples, the present clock is closely related to that pictured and described in Kenneth Roberts, Eli Terry and the Connecticut Shelf Clock pp. 95 in.Įli Terry completed his apprenticeship with Daniel Burnap in 1792 and brass movement tall clocks by him are the earliest work of this prominent maker of wooden clocks. 1795, with case attributed to Eliphalet Chapin or Simeon Loomis, East Windsor, Connecticut, engraved rococo sheet-brass, silvered dial marked Eli Terry Plymouth, Roman numerals, scroll decoration in the spandrels, eight-day time and strike movement with calendar, wooden pendulum rod, brass faced bob and two tin-cased weights, the case with pagoda facade top, three turned finials, fluted freestanding columns, waist door flanked by fluted quarter columns and ogee bracket base with "Chapin-style" blocking, ht.
He introduced mass production to the art of clockmaking, which made clocks affordable for the average.
He received a United States patent for a shelf clock mechanism.
He was an inventor and clockmaker in Connecticut. Auction: Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - 2527M Location: Marlborough Date / Time: Novem10:00AM Description:Ĭherry Tall Clock by Eli Terry, Plymouth, Connecticut, c. was born April 13, 1772, the son of Samuel and Huldah Terry, in the part of East Windsor that is now South Windsor.
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