Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Diplomatic Reception Rooms, United States Department of State, Washington, D.C., 89.6 Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF668
	Maker Casemaker Unknown Clockmaker William Claggett, 1694?1749
	Dimensions 97 1/4 � 21 3/16 � 10 3/4 in. (247.016 � 53.816 � 27.305 cm) Dial, width: 12 in. (30.48 cm)
	Date 1745–50
	Current location
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); yellow poplar, eastern white pine, and black walnut (secondary)
	Marks "William Claggett Newport," engraved on nameplate in dial arch
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Major General John Adams Dix (1798–1879), 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
	Associated names Major General John Adams Dix Catherine (Livingston) Lawrence
	Bibliography Clement 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), 176–177, no. 89, ill. Frank L. Hohmann III et al., Timeless: Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocks (New York: Hohmann Holdings, 2009), 284–285, no. 85, 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. Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2018), 76–77, 148–49, 198–99, 244, no. 15, WC-56, fig. 1.78, 5.19.