Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury (New York: MacMillan Company, 1963), no. 3271 Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF2053
	Maker Casemaker Unknown Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723?1785 Clockmaker David Williams, 1769?1823
	Dimensions Height: 84 in. (213.36 cm)
	Date 1790–1800
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island, and made in Warwick, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks "David Williams / New Port," painted on dial
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Gertrude H. Camp (born 1882, active 1927–28); consigned to Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, January 20–21, 1929, lot 204. Sotheby's, New York, before 1993
	Associated names Gertrude H. Camp Anderson Galleries Sotheby's
	See also RIF637 RIF2713 RIF3807 RIF4217 RIF6340
	Bibliography Anderson Galleries, New York, Eighteenth Century American Furniture Colonial and Georgian Silver: A Remarkable Collection Sold by Order of Mrs. Gertrude H. Camp, "The Hayloft," Whitemarsh, PA, sale cat. (January 20–21, 1928), 66–67, lot 204, ill. Brooks Palmer, The Book of American Clocks (New York: MacMillan Company, 1950), 32, fig. 22. Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury (New York: MacMillan Company, 1963), no. 3271. Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 134, 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), 112n22.