Dwarf tall clock

Dwarf tall clock

Samuel Mulliken II

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Clocks such as these, essentially shelf clocks atop a lower case, are quite rare and are sometimes called dwarf tall clocks. The brass dial is unsigned, but it is very much like a rare signed example by Samuel Mulliken II of Newburyport, Massachusetts that is illustrated in Brooks Palmer’s "A Treasury of American Clocks" (New York, 1977).

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.