A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY BRASS-MOUNTED TALL-CASE CLOCK

Signed by Lebbeus Bailey (1763-1827), this clock illustrates the talents of the Bailey family of clockmakers of Hanover, Massachusetts who enjoyed considerable influence during late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries. Lebbeus probably trained with his older brother, John Bailey II (1751-1823) and is recorded as a clockmaker in Hanover from 1784 to 1791, when he removed to Yarmouth, Maine. For more on the family, see Gary R. Sullivan, "Clockmaking in Southeastern Massachusetts: The Bailey Family of Hanover," in Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan and Jack O'Brien, Harbor & Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850 (2009), pp. 39-44.