Tall Clock

Tall Clock

Jacob Diehl

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This handsome clock case is highly characteristic of tall clock cases produced in Berks County, Pennsylvania in the Federal period, due to the rayed crest centered by a pictorial inlay tablet and the bands of light wood veneer inlaid with geometric dark wood stringing. Jacob Diehl of Reading, Pennsylvania, the maker of the works, signed the oversized fourteen-inch dial in black paint in the style of a copperplate engraver.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.