Fine Southern Federal Marquetry-Inlaid Cherry Tall Case Clock

first quarter 19th century, heavily inlaid throughout, the hood with a swan's-neck pediment ending in scrolls with inlaid four-point stars, the painted sheet-iron dial with a lunar calendar mechanism over a face adorned with spandrels of painted seashells, the inner door's lower edge outlined with barber-pole inlay, flanked by square colonettes and the projecting frieze above the door, the waist centered by a door outlined with barber-pole inlay and with an oval six-point star framed by oval stringing with three adjoining lines, the door flanked by vine inlay with leaves, and rounded buds emanating from an inlaid vase at their base, the cove waist molding capped by alternating blocks of light and dark wood, the base section with a central inlaid six-point star framed by a crossbanded roundel with inlaid dots and dark centers, the front edges of the waist with barber-pole inlay, the shaped skirt continuing to French feet with spurs, constructed of cherry except as noted, the back composed of a single board of pine beginning above the rear foot braces, rabbeted and nailed to the cherry sides, the top of the hood composed with walnut and Southern yellow pine boards lapped front and back and nailed into place, each side foot glued to a single vertical glue block, and the faceted blocks joining the floor of the clock to the feet and skirt, the works original.
h. 96-1/2", w. 19", d. 11"