Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, March 24-25, 1961, lot 265 Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF2311
	Maker Clockmaker Caleb Wheaton, American, 1757–1827 Casemaker Townsend Goddard, 1750–1790
	Dimensions Height: 93 in. (236.22 cm) Width: 18 1/2 in. (46.99 cm)
	Date 1786
	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
	Inscriptions "Providence March 27th [th superscript] / Received of Mr [r superscript] Zebulun Utter one pound / sixteen shilling LM in behalf of Mr [r superscript] / Townsend Godard of Newport for / Two Clock Cases Caleb Wheaton," receipt that accompanied clock in 1933
	Provenance Zebulon Utter (1725–1802), Warwick, Rhode Island. C. W. Lyon, Inc., New York, 1947. Reginald M. Lewis (died 1960), Easton, Maryland; consigned by his estate to Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, March 24–25, 1961, lot 265
	Associated names Reginald Minturn Lewis Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Zebulon Utter C. W. Lyon, Inc.
	Bibliography "C. W. Lyon, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 52, no. 3 (September 1947): 141. Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, American Furniture: Property of the Estate of the Late Reginald M. Lewis, sale cat. (March 24–25, 1961), 102, lot 265, ill. "The Editor's Attic: Documented Goddard," Antiques 24, no. 1 (July 1933): 3–4, fig. 3. 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), 107, 313n3, fig. 11.