Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., Photo by Laszlo Bodo
Click the image to enlarge
|
Dwarf case clock |
|
Object numberRIF782 |
||
MakerMaker UnknownClockmaker Thomas Claggett, ca. 1730?1797 |
||
DimensionsHeight: 61 in. (154.94 cm) Width, cornice: 13 7/8 in. (35.243 cm) Width, shaft: 9 in. (22.86 cm) Width, pedestal: 11 5/8 in. (29.528 cm) Width, feet: 14 1/2 in. (36.83 cm) Depth, cornice: 7 3/4 in. (19.685 cm) Depth, shaft: 5 1/2 in. (13.97 cm) Depth, pedestal: 6 7/8 in. (17.463 cm) Depth, feet: 8 in. (20.32 cm) Dial, less lunette: 7 × 7 in. (17.78 × 17.78 cm) |
||
Date175565 |
||
Current locationThe Metropolitan Museum of Art |
||
GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
||
MediumMahogany (primary); white pine (hood top and back and seat board); spruce (backboard) |
||
Marks"Thomas / Claggett / Newport," engraved on boss in dial arch |
||
InscriptionsScratched on backs of cupid spandrels: "II, III, V, VI, X" |
||
StyleChippendale |
||
ProvenanceGeorge S. Palmer (18551934), New London, Connecticut; sold to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1918 |
||
Associated namesGeorge Smith Palmer |
||
See also |
||
BibliographyCharles O. Cornelius, Early American Furniture (New York: Century Co., 1926), pl. 31.Bernice B. Osburn and Burl N. Osburn, Measured Drawings of Early American Furniture (Milwaukee, Wisc.: Bruce Publishing Company, 1926), 6365, ill. and measured drawings. Brooks Palmer, The Book of American Clocks (New York: MacMillan Company, 1928), pl. 17. Verna Cook Salomonsky, Masterpieces of Furniture Design (Michigan: Periodical Publishing Co., 1931), pl. 101 (measured drawings). Wallace Nutting, The Clock Book (Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Co., 1935), no. 75. Brooks Palmer, The Book of American Clocks (New York: MacMillan Company, 1950), no. 17. Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury (New York: MacMillan Company, 1963), no. 3244, ill. Herbert F. Schiffer and Peter B. Schiffer, Miniature Antique Furniture (Wynnewood, Pa.: Livingston Publishing Co., 1972), 138139, ill. p.144. William H. Distin and Robert Bishop, The American Clock: A Comprehensive Pictorial Survey, 17231900: With a Listing of 6153 Clockmakers (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1976), 81, fig. 160. Richard L. Champlin, "Thomas Claggett: Silversmith, Swordsman, Clockmaker," Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc. 21, no. 2 (April 1979): 172. Morrison H. Heckscher, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Late Colonial Period, The Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles (New York: Random House, 1985), 29294, no. 189, 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), 297n2. Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2018), 21821, 247, no. 22, TC-2, ill. The Claggetts of Newport: Master Clockmakers in Colonial America, exh. cat. (Newport, R I.: Redwood Library and Athenaeum, 2019), 37, ill. |