Matthis Scholz made a clock in his Amsterdam workshop in the late 1700’s that was given to A recently married couple in the Dutch diplomatic service in Batavia . The lady was part of a Rhode Island family and at some point the clock came to America with her and stayed several generations within a gulls’ flight of Narragansett bay. The clock had suffered in storage and with time , the typical ornamental figure on top was lost . After much restoration of damaged marquetry It was decided that an Atlas figure was the most likely top finial and we carved and gilded one in wood after making a clay maquette.