Molded pearlware bowl (a) with lid (b). Hand painted and transfer printed Cobalt blue floral print decoration covers all of exterior. Two baskets with flowers on sides. Rectangular handles are part of the piece.
Dark brown ceramic sugar bowl, oval-shaped. Most likely press-molded and hand finished. Lid has golden, floral, molded finial and enamel floral pattern with golden edging around rims, handles and base.
Stitched leather fire bucket painted red on outside. Wooden band inside rim is visible where seam has come apart at a handle attachment point. Two metal D rings hold leather handle to bucket. "Geo. Hoff Jun.r Friendship" painted in gold letters on red background. this wire used to anchor both ends of handle.
Sheraton style mahogany, holly and rosewood knife box. The slanting, hinged and hollow lids feature a metal ring on the front. The lids and the case fronts have a serpentine shape with inlaid wood strips at corners on the front, lid and bottom. Top front of the cases have a keyhole beneath the lid seam. The cases surmount three feet; one centered at the middle front wall and two under the back corners. Interiors have six compartments of varying depths that correspond to the slope of the cases.
Eight day tall case clock with works by Isaac Chandlee. White dial has Roman numeral hours, a seconds dial under XII and a date wheel above the VI. Spandrels painted with stylized shells and arch at dial top depicts European bldgs. (a chapel?).
Walnut Chippendale case has unusual features. Scroll pediment has three urn and spire finials (spire sawed off center one), two on plinths at corners and one on a central raised keystone. Keystone and plinths have gouge-decoration in a vertical broken line pattern alternating with solid vertical lines. Four corner columns are scored to resemble flutingTympanum, pendulum door and raised panel on base each have figured grain. Unusual wing-shaped upper corners on pendulum door and base panel. Ogee bracket feet have spurs and sit on pads. Decorative center drop on skirt.
Provenance
Early 19th c. insect-eaten paper with former owner's name is affixed to back of trunk interior: "Octavian/Octavias Feinler Newprovidence(sic)." Additional lines of script damaged. Feinler was a tavern owner. Archives has applications for a tavern license 1835-1838, 1840-1841 and 1843. The 1840 census indicates he was then living in Lancaster City. Charged with assault & battery in 1842. Petitioned a writ of habeas corpus in 1856, claiming he was unjustly imprisoned.
Apparent later descent within the Brown family to donor.
Finish on clock is weathered and soiled, perhaps from storage in an outbuilding, Some areas of base have no finish remaining. Joint separation at left front corner of base. Checks / cracks in pendulum door.
Glass of bonnet door is broken at bottom left corner. Cracks on bonnet sides below windows. Interior bottom broken out / missing, with remaining bent rosehead nails at sides.
Object ID
2010.028
Notes
Clockmaker Benjamin Chandlee Jr. had 4 sons, all of whom would produce clocks. Isaac Chandlee, the youngest, was born in 1760 and began his career in a partnership with his brother Ellis. Ellis most likely made the clock works while Isaac did the finishing. Most of Isaac's clocks (including those made in partnership with Ellis) were probably made between 1792-1804. The Chandlee family also had a reputation for their scientific instruments and several surveying compasses with Isaac's signature are known.
Like his family, Isaac was a Quaker, and is described as "laboring quietly in the moral and religious duties assigned him." (Johnston's History of Cecil county, Maryland, pp.158-9) He never married, but kept house with his aunt, Susannah Folwell. Isaac remained in Nottingham his whole life and died in 1813.
Eight-day, tall case clock by John George Hoff, Sr., in a flat-top Chippendale walnut case.
Brass dial has pewter chapter ring with Roman numerals for the hour and Arabic numerals for the seconds. Separate seconds dial below XII. Pewter spandrels. "George Hoff" engraved at bottom of dial, above a calendar window. Painted moon wheel at top has moon on a field of stars.
Bonnet has molded cornice, arched door and arched side windows. Engaged columns at all four corners. Waist has wide chambered corners with lambequins at top and bottom. Door has arched top and molded edges; brass escutcheon (replaced?); door is hung by two brass steeple butt hinges. Base has plain sides and chamfered corners that match those at waist. Molding above four ogee bracket feet.
J.J. Snyder notes that this clock case with wide chamfers relates to other pieces with the same feature, e.g. G.03.1.1 (Jenkins family bookcase on desk) and P.78.76 (Old family bonnet top high chest). The Hoff clock chamfers, however, are not fluted like the large case pieces.
See photo of clock in Wood and Kramer's clock book, p. 37.
Provenance
Professor Kauffman said on 4-23-99 that he purchased this clock from a dealer after Joe Kindig refused it because it was a flat top. A receipt (now in file) was tacked to inside of clock case documenting the purchase from collector/dealer Melvin Hubley of Lancaster City in 1955 (cost $545).
Modest wear, right side light is cracked, molding missing at right side of waist at bottom. Base is scarred, some cracks, especially aroung feet and moldiing. Unfilled nail repair holes at base.
Finish has orange peel surface.
Object ID
G.96.37.1
Place of Origin
Lancaster
Credit
Gift of Henry J. Kauffman, Heritage Center Collection
Thrown earthenware body with applied pulled handle and 2 piece mold spout and attached bottom. Lid. Blue transfer printed rural scene and ornament around outer top edge, spout, and handle, and lid.
Leaded glass. 10 sided bottom. Finger-cut design toward bottom. 10 sided finger-cut shoulder. Neck has 3 beaded rings and flattish lip. Stopper is drop-shaped, pointed at top and is 7 faceted. Body is slightly flared to shoulder.
