Interiors, Featuring Property from the Collection of a Missouri Company

Provenance:

Private Collection, Baltimore, Maryland;

Richard Brody, New Market, Maryland, 15 June 1991.

Note:

Addice and Peter Thomas, passionate collectors of American and English antiques, amassed a vast collection over their 60-year marriage. Both were active members of the Washington, D.C. arts community. Peter served as Dean of the Corcoran School of Art and later as Art Director at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Addice studied voice and worked for two decades as the manager of the Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center.

As collectors, their focus was primarily on the 18th and 19th centuries, though they occasionally acquired from earlier periods. They frequently sourced their antiques at shops along the east coast and during their annual trips to the United Kingdom.

Their collection is incredibly diverse, encompassing a wide range of items from art, folk art, and decorative arts to sterling silver, tinware, blue granite, pewter, copper and brass. Their collection of English ceramics including ironstone, early Mason’s wares, Gaudy Welsh, Gaudy Dutch, and Staffordshire, numbered in the hundreds. Additionally, they acquired over one hundred Staffordshire figures and child's dishes, Toby jugs, and Dutch ceramics including a striking five-vase garniture. Finally, they had a substantial collection of American and English furniture, child’s furniture and over fifty Persian carpets. Their collection was a testament to their passion for antiques and their dedication to building a truly unique collection.

In overall fine and stable condition. The clock takes a wind, runs and chimes on the appropriate hour, but cannot guarantee that the clock keeps accurate time or that it will run indefinitely through the full movement. The clock will need to be properly balanced in order to run correctly and keep accurate time. The case showing old scuffs, marks and scratches consistent with age and use. Few age cracks throughout. The works and the case are associated to one another and did not start life together. There is a loss along the proper left corner of the molding at the top of the case, but most of those pieces have been retained. There is an old patch to the proper right side of the case just above the lower molding. Small repair patch on the door of the hood. The trunk with replaced hinges. Key escutcheon missing. Finial plinth on the proper left side of the hood is reglued. Painted dial with craquelure throughout and with some areas of loss, the 11 has been repainted. With two weights and pendulum. Lacking the winding key.

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