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Tall case clock

Object number

RIF1176

Maker

Casemaker Unknown
Clockmaker William Claggett, 1694?1749

Dimensions

Height: 100 1/2 in. (255.271 cm) Width: 20 3/8 in. (51.753 cm) Depth: 11 in. (27.94 cm)

Date

1740–49

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany

Marks

"Will Claggett / Newport," engraved on dial

Style

Queen Anne

Provenance

Thomas Dering (1720–1785), Boston, Massachusetts, and later Shelter Island, New York

Associated names

Thomas Dering

Bibliography

Dean F. Failey, Long Island Is My Nation: The Decorative Arts and Craftsmen, 1640–1830 (Cold Spring, N.Y.: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1998), 66–67, no. 74, 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), 25, 141–43, 147–48, 180–81, 243, no. 9, WC-36, fig. 5.7, 5.17.