Ansonia Marble Clock

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Overview

Black with Rosa Portugues marble inlay:
Black Apex Roof, scribed with oak, maple and small flowers supporting countryside hunting scene showing a man, a hunting dog, various trees, and a castle carvings:
Base black with oak, marble and small flower scribed along the front:
White clock face trimmed with gold painted gilt, showing black Roman numerals inside in a Glass Casing with oak, maple and small flower scribed on the four corners:
Decorated with 2 sets of 3 black pillared pavilions on each side of the clock:
Above the base there are 2 x Rose Portugues marble pillars, inlaid with black marble at the bottom.

Historical information

The Ansonia Clock Company was a clock manufacturing business founded by metal dealer Anson Green Phelps who formed the Ansonia Brass Company in 1844 to allow the expansion into clock supply. In 1850 he formed the Ansonia Clock Company along with clockmakers, Theodore Terry and Franklin C. Andrews in Bristol, Connecticut upon which the company relocated to Ansonia, Connecticut.
In 1877 a factory was purchased in Brooklyn, New York and clockmaker Henry J. Davies joined the company as a joint founder. In 1880 the factory burnt down, and an extended factory rebuilt in 1881 which had the capacity to exceed the Connecticut factory which closed in 1883.
By 1914 the Company was producing 440 different clock models however due to fierce competition by 1920 the number of models were down to 136, then 47 by 1927. Despite selling the Brooklyn factory in 1926 and much of the timekeeping machinery and tooling in 1929, they were unable to stem the inevitable decline and finally closed in Ansonia in 2006 after 155 years of operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansonia_Clock_Company

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-124-2020.40

Item type

Clocks

Material

Black Marble

Glass

Width

330 mm

Height or length