Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., Photo by Laszlo Bodo
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Dwarf tall case clock |
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Object numberRIF2322 |
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MakerMaker UnknownMaker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723?1785 Clockmaker Thomas Claggett, ca. 1730?1797 |
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DimensionsHeight: 66 in. (167.64 cm) Width: 16 in. (40.64 cm) |
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Date176080 |
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Current locationWinterthur Museum, Garden, and Library |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany |
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Marks"Thos. Claget, Newport," engraved on boss in lunette on brass dial |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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StyleChippendale |
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ProvenanceLuke Vincent Lockwood (18721951) and his wife, Alice Burnell Lockwood, Greenwich, Connecticut; consigned by her estate to Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 1315, 1954, lot 515. Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Delaware |
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Associated namesLuke Vincent LockwoodAlice Burnell Lockwood Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. |
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See also |
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BibliographyLuke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), vol. 2, pp. 336337, 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 1315, 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, 16501830, 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), 11920, 152, 21617, 247, no. 21, TC-1, fig. 3.10, 5.30. |