Calendar Clock
Ithaca Calendar Clock Company, American, active 1880s
about 1880
Brass, steel, iron, rosewood, ebony, and glass
Overall: 20 1/2 × 10 1/4 × 5 7/16 in. (52 × 26 × 13.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Alice M. Runyon
F.989.52.8
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Clock
Research Area
Decorative Arts
Not on view
Inscriptions
Painted, in gold, on interior bottom glass dial: H.E. HORTON'S / PATENTS / April 18, 1865, and August 28, 1866 / ITHACA CALENDAR CLOCK CO. / ITHACA. N.Y.; etched. in glass pendulum: CCC
Exhibition History
The Rowell Collection of Clocks, organized by Allan King for exhibition in Fairchild Lobby, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Provenance
Dr. Hugh Grant Rowell; Mrs. Alice Minnerly Runyon, North Tarrytown, New York, 1963; given to present collection, 1989.
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