Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
Building America: The Wolf Family Collection
The Little Family Chippendale Mahogany Block-and-Shell Tall-Case Clock, Goddard-Townsend School, Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1795
Auction Closed
April 21, 08:50 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Little Family Chippendale Mahogany Block-and-Shell Tall-Case Clock
circa 1795
90⅝ x 20¾ x 10 in. (230.2 x 52.7 x 25.4 cm.)
Retains a letter that notes that the clock descended in the Little family
James Lovell Little, SF (1810-1889), Massachusetts
George N. McMahon, Boston, Massachusetts
John H. Wilkins, Jr., Washington, DC
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, January 26-29, 1977, sale 3947, lot 1059
[with] Ron De Silva, New York (acquired from the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 0242 (acquired from the above on January 29, 1977)
James Lovell Little, SF (1810-1889), Massachusetts
George N. McMahon, Boston, Massachusetts
John H. Wilkins, Jr., Washington, DC
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, January 26-29, 1977, sale 3947, lot 1059
[with] Ron De Silva, New York (acquired from the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 0242 (acquired from the above on January 29, 1977)