Here are two projects I've just completed; both are more or less repeats of pieces I’ve made in the past. The clock is based on examples by David Wood from Newburyport c.1810. The only significant changes from surviving examples are some of the inlays and the use of reeded curly maple quarter columns. The clock measures (less the bracket) 33 ½” tall, 12” wide and 6” deep. It is finished with my standard lime/dyed oil, followed by grain filler and shellac. The hardware came from Londonderry Brasses, and the glass from Bendheim. The customer supplied the dial and movement.
The mirror is a direct copy of one at the State Department. The smaller rosettes and the leaves at the sides are cast from hand carved masters; the remainder of the pieces are carved from pine. It is water gilded over traditional gesso and red clay bole. The customer later decided to have me shellac the gilding which cut much of the brilliance and depth of the burnished gilding. The mirror is finished exactly like the clock. The mirror is 21 ¼” wide and 54 ½” tall.
Rob Millard
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Originally Posted by Pat Zabrocki
