Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Israel Sack, Inc., Archive, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF2225
	Maker Casemaker Unknown Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723–1785 Clockmaker Unknown
	Dimensions Height: 82 in. (208.28 cm)
	Date movement 1720–30; case probably 1837
	Current location Private collection
	Geography Made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Cherry (primary); chestnut (back board, back of feet, back of hood pediment); pine (top of hood)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions "January 11th / 1837," in chalk, on interior back board and proper right interior side of hood
	Provenance John Kenneth Byard (1885–1959), Norwalk, Connecticut, 1952; sold to a private collection
	Associated names John Kenneth Byard
	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.

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