Photo: Courtesy Diplomatic Reception Rooms, United States Department of State, Washington, D.C., 89.6
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Tall case clock |
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Object numberRIF668 |
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MakerCasemaker UnknownClockmaker William Claggett, 1694?1749 |
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Dimensions97 1/4 × 21 3/16 × 10 3/4 in. (247.016 × 53.816 × 27.305 cm) Dial, width: 12 in. (30.48 cm) |
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Date174550 |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); yellow poplar, eastern white pine, and black walnut (secondary) |
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Marks"William Claggett Newport," engraved on nameplate in dial arch |
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StyleChippendale |
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ProvenanceMajor General John Adams Dix (17981879), Cooperstown, then Albany, and New York; by descent to his granddaughter Mrs. Charles L. Lawrence, New York, before 1956; sold to Mr. C. Thomas Clagett, Jr., 1956; given to the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1989 |
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Associated namesMajor General John Adams DixCatherine (Livingston) Lawrence |
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BibliographyClement E. Conger, Alexandra W. Rollins, and Mary Itsell, Treasures of State: Fine and Decorative Arts in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the U.S. Department of State (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991), 176177, no. 89, ill.Frank L. Hohmann III et al., Timeless: Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocks (New York: Hohmann Holdings, 2009), 284285, no. 85, ill. 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), 111n17. Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2018), 7677, 14849, 19899, 244, no. 15, WC-56, fig. 1.78, 5.19. |