A Very Rare Federal Mahogany and Eglomise Paneled Diamond-Head Banjo Clock, works by Daniel Monroe, Concord, Massachusetts, circa 1810

Retains original throat and base eglomise panels; both eglomise panels cracked and throat panel with losses.

Please note the eglomise panels presently on this clock are reproductions based on the original. The original panels, which accompany the clock, are damaged and are affixed to a panel.
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A related Daniel Monroe clock is illustrated in Steven P. Petrucelli and Kenneth A. Sposato, American Banjo Clocks, (Cranbury, NJ: Adams Brown Co., 1995), figs. 181-3, pp. 124-6. This clock sold at Sotheby's New York, Highly Important Americana from the Stanley Paul Sax Collection, January 17, 1998, sael no. 7087, lot 431 for $167,500.

A diamond-head model clock by Monroe is in the Clock Museum at Sturbridge Museum, Sturbridge, Massachusetts and by Jabez Baldwin is at Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware (see Charles Montgomery, Federal Furniture in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, pl. 161)