Replacing the missing elements on a nice 18th-century Lancaster-County clock-case hood.

The clock, when once just considered “old”, must have been cut down to fit a low-ceilinged room.

Now, in its elevated status as “antique” it required restoration.

The hood had been sawn-off square, leaving only 1 clue about its original design. There were shadow-lines on the tympanum, the upper face of the hood-front, which indicated the curves of the original gooseneck moldings.

Working with my client, the owner of the piece, we designed elements to be added to the hood: gooseneck moldings terminating in cupidsbow-carved drums capped with sunflower-carved rosettes, which flanked a central plinth faced with a cupidsbow-carved corbel as keystone, which was topped, as were the outer corners of the cornice, with fluted plinths, which supported turned urn-shaped finials topped by deeply-carved flames, the left one right-hand thread, the right one left-hand thread, and the central one flamboyantly flickering inderminantly.