Rare Fredericksburg, Virginia, Inlaid Mahogany Tall Case Clock, the works made by John M. Weidemeyer, ca. 1804-1822, with a swan's-neck pediment with turned wooden rosettes flanking an urn-form crest in two parts and likely original, the hood set with fluted columns in molded brass capitals and bases, the door outlined with stringing, set with moon phase works signed "Jno M. Weidemeyer, Fredericksburg", with a painted flourish below painted spandrels in each corner, depicting the United States shield trimmed with raised gilt scrollwork, the trunk door with a serpentine top and inlaid oval three-part stringing, flanked by fluted wooden quarter columns, the base inlaid with round stringing matching the door inlay, the whole on flaring French feet, attached with vertical chamfered blocks, the two-board bottom likely replaced, the back composed of two lapped poplar boards, the secondary wood is poplar and pine, h. 103-1/4", w. 20-1/2", d. 10-1/4".

The case inlay follows the New York, New Jersey model, which was common in Fredericksburg. Fredericksburg was one of the South's most important clock making centers, with hybrid cases combining influences of New England, New York and New Jersey. The clock offered here combines New York and New Jersey influences, and is nearly identical to one illustrated in Southern Furniture by Jonathan Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown, figure 172.3, p. 573, and shares the same secondary woods.

The swan's-neck pediment has old glued repairs to both sides as well as to the post below the center finial. A pieced-in repair to the lower frame of the hood door. A small section of the string inlay gone to the case above the door. Slight warping in the horizontal shrinkage cracks to the front of the base. The right front leg with an old crack. The painted face - probably by Nolen & Curtis, Boston. Old wear and some small losses and flaking. Weights, pendulum, winding key and door key present.