Tall Case Clock
DESCRIPTION: Tall case clock with molded base; fluted quarter columns, base front has stringing creating a square with quarter fans, molded top; waist has fluted quarter columns; raised door has an astragal top with stringing following the line of the arch and creating lunette corners at the bottom, lightwood diamond at the keyhole; hood has four swelled, fluted, detached columns, broken arch pediment, molded, with light and dark wood inlaid pinwheels, a single fluted ball finial over inlaid floral patera; clock face has Roman and Arabic numerals, two winding holes, moon phases in the arch and flowers in the spandrels. Bracket feet, finials, and outer finial plinths are replacements.
The clock descended from George and Margaret to their daughter Margaret C. Carlyle Carter (1810-1895) and her husband Dr. Joseph Coleman Carter I (1808-1876); to their son Dr. Daniel Drake Carter (1837-1886); to his son Joseph Coleman Carter II (1884- 1932); to his daughter Sarah Fullerton Carter Stanfill (1912-1996).