Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., Photo by Laszlo Bodo
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Tall case clock |
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Object numberRIF1176 |
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MakerCasemaker UnknownClockmaker William Claggett, 1694?1749 |
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DimensionsHeight: 100 1/2 in. (255.271 cm) Width: 20 3/8 in. (51.753 cm) Depth: 11 in. (27.94 cm) |
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Date174049 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany |
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Marks"Will Claggett / Newport," engraved on dial |
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StyleWilliam and Mary |
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ProvenanceThomas Dering (17201785), Boston, Massachusetts, and later Shelter Island, New York |
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Associated namesThomas Dering |
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BibliographyDean F. Failey, Long Island Is My Nation: The Decorative Arts and Craftsmen, 16401830 (Cold Spring, N.Y.: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1998), 6667, no. 74, 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), 25, 14143, 14748, 18081, 243, no. 9, WC-36, fig. 5.7, 5.17. |