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Banjo clock
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Banjo clock

Joseph Nye Dunning (1795–1841)
Lemuel Curtis (1790–1857)
1812–18
Object PlaceConcord, Massachusetts, or Burlington, Vermont, United States
Medium/TechniqueMahogany, reverse glass paintings, painted dial, gilded brass finial, brass gears
Dimensions106.7 x 26.0 x 10.5 cm (42 x 10 1/4 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Henry Saltonstall Howe
Accession number1994.316
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsFurniture
Collections
InscriptionsPainted on throat: "PATENT"ProvenanceHenry Saltonstall Howe (b. 1910 - d. 1994), Boston; 1994, bequest of Henry Saltonstall Howe to the MFA. (Accession Date December 14, 1994)
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