Tall Case Clock

Very little early Kentucky furniture survives that dates before 1800 and illustrates elements of 18th century furniture styles as this clock does. Certain details of the piece relate it to the design of clock cases made in the area of Lancashire, England. This cherry tall case clock descended in the Marshall family of Kentucky and was mentioned in Thomas Marshall’s (1730-1802) will codicil in 1800 as well as his son Thomas’s (1761-1817) 1817 will. Described in the first will as being at "Bucktrout", Thomas Marshall’s home in Woodford County, Kentucky rather than at his son Thomas’ house "Federal Hill" in Mason County where he was at the time of his death, the clock may have been made in the vicinity of Woodford County or even in Lexington in neighboring Fayette County. While the case cannot at this moment be placed with any identified cabinetmaker working in central Kentucky in the 1790s, hopefully future research will reveal who could have produced this object.
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