Aaron Willard  Tall Case Clock.  Federal period-Heppelwhite style, ca. 1795-1805 

Case made of mahogany, mahogany veneer, and pine with painted dial inscribed "Aaron Willard,/ Boston." Originally owned by Thomas Sanders (1759-1844), a pepper merchant who lived at 43 Chestnut Street, Salem, Massachusetts. Molded bonnet top with flanking curvaceous fretwork and three brass ball and steeple finials on short fluted plinths, the center finial being larger. Reeded columns with brass capitals and bases with stop fluting flank simple line inlay on arched panel door with original glass. Molded waist with fluted corner pilasters with brass stop fluting as above, with a brass hinged molded door with conforming inlaid rectangular motif. Square base with concave molding at top and convex molding above four ogee feet. Painted dial is inscribed as above as has original surface with Roman and Arabic numerals with pink rose and leaves corner spandrels with an oval polychrome floral spray at the apex.