Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: "Documented Goddard," Antiques 24 (July 1933): 2 Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF2293
	Maker Casemaker Unknown Clockmaker Caleb Wheaton, American, 1757?1827
	Dimensions Height: 93 in. (236.22 cm)
	Date 1780–90
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Providence, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks "Caleb Wheaton / Providence," engraved on dial arch
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Wallace Nutting (1861–1941), Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1933; consigned by his estate to Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, October 4, 1941, lot 114. Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., New York, 1949 until at least 1954
	Associated names Wallace Nutting Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Ginsburg and Levy, Inc. Ginsburg and Levy, Inc.
	Bibliography "The Editor's Attic: Documented Goddard," Antiques 24, no. 1 (July 1933): 2, 4, frontispiece, fig. 2. Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, Early American Furniture, Property of the Estate of the Late Wallace Nutting, sale cat. (October 4, 1941), 22–23, lot 114, ill. "Ginsburg and Levy advertisement," Antiques 55, no. 4 (April 1949): 255. Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640–1820 (Newport, R.I.: Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954), 57–58, no. 31, 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), 112n37.

Tall case clock