Photo: Courtesy Israel Sack, Inc., Archive, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
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Tall case clock |
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Object numberRIF2225 |
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MakerMaker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 17231785Casemaker Unknown Clockmaker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight: 82 in. (208.28 cm) |
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Datemovement 172030; case probably 1837 |
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Current locationPrivate Collection |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumCherry (primary); chestnut (back board, back of feet, back of hood pediment); pine (top of hood) |
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MarksNone |
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Inscriptions"January 11th / 1837," in chalk, on interior back board and proper right interior side of hood |
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ProvenanceJohn Kenneth Byard (18851959), Norwalk, Connecticut, 1952; sold to a private collection |
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Associated namesJohn Kenneth Byard |
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Bibliography"John Kenneth Byard advertisement," Antiques 61, no. 5 (May 1952): 379.Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 134, ill. |