Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF2023
	Maker Casemaker Unknown Clockmaker Unknown
	Dimensions Height: 90 � 20 � 9 1/4 in. (228.6 � 50.8 � 23.5 cm)
	Date 1785–1800
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Probably made in Warwick, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Cherry (primary); chestnut and pine (secondary)
	Marks Unknown
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Morris Berry (ca. 1886–after 1940), Plainville, Connecticut; consigned to American Art Association Anderson Galleries, New York, April 25–26, 1930, lot 288. William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951), San Francisco, California; consigned to Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, November 17–19, 1938, lot 558. Bernard and S. Dean Levy, New York, 1988
	Associated names Morris Berry American Art Association Anderson Galleries William Randolph Hearst Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc.
	Notes The case of this clock with fluted pilasters flanking the door is similar to RIF2270.
	Bibliography American Art Association and Anderson Galleries, New York, Early American Furniture and Decorations: Property of Morris Berry, Plainville, Conn., sale cat. (April 25–26, 1930), 108–109, lot 288, ill. Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, The William Hearst Collection, Part II: Early American Furniture and Historical Staffordshire Ware, sale cat. (November 17–19, 1938), 202, lot 558, ill. "Bernard and S. Dean Levy, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 134, no. 1 (July 1988): 9, 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), 112nn22, 23.