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Tall case clock

Object number

RIF1935

Maker

Casemaker Unknown
Clockmaker David Williams, 1769?1823

Dimensions

92 × 17 × 8 3/4 in. (233.681 × 43.18 × 22.225 cm)

Date

1800–1810

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Mahogany

Marks

"David Williams / New Port," painted on dial

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

Christie's, New York, January 26–27, 1995, lot 133

Associated names

Christie's

Bibliography

Christie's, New York, Important American Furniture, Silver, Prints, Folk Art, and Decorative Arts, sale cat. (January 26–27, 1995), 67, lot 133, ill.