- Carved Cherry Tall Case Clock, Asahel (b. 1759) and
Martin (1778-c. 1830) Cheney, Putney, Vermont, 1798-
1803, the engraved brass tombstone dial with a rampant
lion in the arch, floral spandrels, seconds hand and calendar
aperture, signed “Asahel Cheney/Putney,” with eight-day
brass weight-driven movement, refinished, (imperfections),
ht. 90 in.
Provenance: Douglas Marland Collection, Windsor House,
New Canaan, Connecticut; Bernard and S. Dean Levy, New
York City, 1993; purchased by the current owners from the
preceding.
Literature: See Zogry, p. 108, cat. no. 60.
Exhibitions: The Best the Country Affords: Vermont
Furniture, 1765–1850, The Bennington Museum,
Bennington, Vermont, 1995.
Note: Zogry tells us that Asahel and Martin were sons of
Benjamin Cheney, of East Hartford, Connecticut, and they
moved up the river to Vermont in the mid-1790s. He further
guesses that Martin Cheney, who signed the bottom of the
seat board “This clock made by Martin Cheney,” might have
done so because his brother’s name only appears on the
dial.
$10,000-15,