Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., Photo by Laszlo Bodo
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Tall case clock |
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Object numberRIF783 |
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MakerClockmaker William Claggett, 16941749Maker, possibly by Job Townsend, Sr., 16991765 Casemaker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight: 104 1/2 in. (265.431 cm) Width, cornice: 20 1/2 in. (52.07 cm) Width, shaft: 13 7/8 in. (35.243 cm) Width, pedestal: 18 in. (45.72 cm) Width, base: 20 3/8 in. (51.753 cm) Depth, cornice: 10 3/4 in. (27.305 cm) Depth, shaft: 7 1/4 in. (18.415 cm) Depth, pedestal: 9 1/2 in. (24.13 cm) Depth, base: 10 1/2 in. (26.67 cm) Dial, less lunette: 12 × 12 in. (30.48 × 30.48 cm) |
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Date174049 |
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Current locationThe Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); yellow poplar (boards of hood top and back and shaft backboard); red maple (hood runners and seat board) |
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Marks"William Claggett Newport," engraved on dial |
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Inscriptions"N F / I 32" in graphite, on seat board; "14 Day N 03 / Feb ru 12 fl[oor?]" in chalk, on case backboard; "Moses [?] P--tkin," incised on case backboard |
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ProvenanceWilliam Boerum Wetmore (18491919), New York and Newport, Rhode Island; sold by his estate to William Hiram Burlingham, Bristol, Rhode Island; sold to Clapp and Graham, New York; sold to C. W. Lyon, Inc., New York; sold to George Coe Graves, Osterville, Massachusetts, 1929; given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1930 |
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Associated namesGeorge Coe GravesWilliam Boerum Wetmore William Hiram Burlingham Clapp and Graham C. W. Lyon, Inc. |
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See also |
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BibliographyMorrison H. Heckscher, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Late Colonial Period, The Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles (New York: Random House, 1985), 29495, 362, no. 190, ill.Ruth Ralston, "The Exhibition in the American Wing of an Anonymous Gift," Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 27 (February 1931): 36. 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), 223n3. Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2018), 1045, 14748, 200203, 244, no. 16, WC-57, fig. 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, 5.18. |