Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Christie's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF227
	Maker Casemaker Unknown Maker formerly attributed Job Townsend, Sr., 1699–1765 Clockmaker James Wady, died 1759
	Dimensions Height, without finials: 93 in. (236.22 cm) Width: 11 1/4 in. (28.575 cm) Depth: 11 1/4 in. (28.575 cm) Width, dial: 12 in. (30.48 cm)
	Date 1745–59
	Current location Private collection
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks "JAMES WADY NEWPORT," engraved in dial arch
	Provenance Christie's, New York, January 18, 2002, lot 388
	Associated names Christie's
	Bibliography "Christie's advertisement," Antiques 161, no. 1 (January 2002): 46, ill. Christie's, New York, Important American Furniture, Silver, and Folk Art: Featuring English Pottery from the Collection of the Late Robert J. Kahn and the Lafayette-Washington Pistols, sale cat. (January 18–19, 2002), 218–225, lot 388, ill. Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., "Quaker Baroque: How Political and Religious Freedom Inspired a Dynasty of American Cabinet-Makers," Christie's Magazine (May–June 2002): 113, ill. Frank L. Hohmann III et al., Timeless: Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocks (New York: Hohmann Holdings, 2009), 302–303, no. 94, ill. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 111n17. Christie's, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art, and Silver, sale cat. (January 19, 2018), 78, fig. 3.