Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., Photo by Laszlo Bodo Click the image to enlarge	Dwarf tall case clock
	Object number RIF2322
	Maker Maker Unknown Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723–1785 Clockmaker Thomas Claggett, ca. 1730–1797
	Dimensions Height: 66 in. (167.64 cm) Width: 16 in. (40.64 cm)
	Date 1760–80
	Current location Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks "Thos. Claget, Newport," engraved on boss in lunette on brass dial
	Inscriptions Unknown
	Provenance Luke Vincent Lockwood (1872–1951) and his wife, Alice Burnell Lockwood, Greenwich, Connecticut; consigned by her estate to Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 13–15, 1954, lot 515. Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Delaware
	Associated names Luke Vincent Lockwood Alice Burnell Lockwood Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.
	See also RIF4537
	Bibliography Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), vol. 2, pp. 336–337, fig. 128. Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 17th and 18th Century American Furniture and Paintings: The Celebrated Collection Formed by the Late Mr. and Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood, sale cat. (May 13–15, 1954), 169, lot 515, ill. Chris Bailey, Two Hundred Years of American Clocks and Watches (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice Hall, 1975), 26, fig. 20. James Smith, "The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum," Antiques 113, no. 6 (June 1978): 1284, 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), 297n2. Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2018), 119–20, 152, 216–17, 247, no. 21, TC-1, fig. 3.10, 5.30.