Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Christie's, New York Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF1468
	Maker Casemaker Unknown Clockmaker William Claggett, 1694?1749
	Dimensions 98 � 21 � 11 in. (248.9 � 53.3 � 27.9 cm)
	Date 1740–49
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); pine (back board); yellow poplar (guides for hood, dia mat, top board, and back of pediment)
	Marks "W. Claggett / Newport," engraved on partially silvered dial
	Inscriptions "1868 / 1727 / 141," in graphite, on inside of waist door
	Style William and Mary
	Provenance John S. Walton, New York; sold to Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr. (1909–2009), Scardsdale, New York, and later Newport, Rhode Island, by 1953; by descent to his wife Roberta L. Carpenter (1938–2019), Newport, Rhode Island; consigned to Christie's, New York, January 24, 2020, lot 301
	Associated names John S. Walton Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr. Roberta L. Carpenter Christie's
	Bibliography Antiques 63, no. 4 (April 1953): ill. frontispiece. Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640–1820 (Newport, R.I.: Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954), 55–56, 201, no. 29, ill. Laura Beach, "The Past Is Present in Newport: A Couple's Lifelong Love of Antiques," Antiques and Fine Art 6, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 118, 120–121, ill. Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2018), 242, WC-26. Madelia Hickman RIng, "Fine Art, Folk Art and Formal Dominates at Christie's," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (February 14, 2020): 30, ill. Lita Solis-Cohen, "Hicks's Peaceable Kingdom Brings $4.575 Million," Maine Antique Digest (March 2020): 125, ill. Christie's, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Silver, sale cat. (January 24, 2020), 80–81, lot 301, ill.