Photo: Courtesy Stanley Weiss Collection, Providence, R.I.
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Tall case clock |
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Object numberRIF5836 |
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MakerCasemaker UnknownClockmaker Samuel Rockwell, 17221773 |
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DimensionsUnknown |
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Date174253 |
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Current locationThe Stanley Weiss Collection |
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GeographyMade in Providence, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary) |
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Marks"Samuel / Rockwell / Providence," engraved on boss |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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StyleChippendale |
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ProvenanceThe Stanley Weiss Collection, Providence, Rhode Island, 2010 |
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Bibliography"A Mahogany Chippendale Tall Case Clock with a Dial Signed by Samuel Rockwell, Attributed to the Goddard Townsend Family, Providence, RI, 1760-70," http://www.tildenthurber.com/stanleyweiss/pages/items13/sw01309r.html (accessed August 27, 2010), item sw01309.Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 112n33. |