Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, 2001.260 Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF2585
	Maker Clockmaker Caleb Wheaton, American, 1757–1827 Casemaker Unknown Maker, possibly by Townsend Goddard, 1750–1790
	Dimensions Height: 97 1/2 in. (247.651 cm)
	Date ca. 1790
	Current location Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island
	Geography Made in Providence, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks "Caleb Wheaton / Providence," painted on dial
	Inscriptions "C. W. Lyon 75178," sticker on pendulum; "05," in pen, below; "Charles W. Lyon," typed, and "05 75178," handwritten sticker on right weight; "The hall clock you have was owned by Major Thomas Williams, who died December 14, 1829, in his 71st year. My idea is he had it in his early youth. It might have belonged to his father. Signed Thomas Battey.," label inside waist door; letter taped inside of case door from Charles Woolsey Lyon, which describes the clock and, its condition and discusses the workmanship of Caleb Wheaton and of Townsend and Goddard, as well as the relationship between Wheaton and Townsend and Goddard, and in closing quotes, the Battey note
	Provenance Possibly Thomas Williams (died December 14, 1829), Providence, Rhode Island. Charles Woolsey Lyon (died ca. 1973), Millbrook, New York, 1968 and 1971; consigned by his estate to Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, March 3, 1973, lot 162; sold to Doris Duke (1912–1993) for Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, 1973; Whitehorne House Museum, Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, from 1974
	Associated names Sotheby Parke Bernet Major Thomas Williams Doris Duke Charles Woolsey Lyon
	Bibliography Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 18th and 19th Century American Furniture: Property from the Estate of the Late Charles Woolsey Lyon, Millbrook New York, sale cat. (March 3, 1973), 45, lot 162, ill. "Charles Woolsey Lyon advertisement," Antiques 100, no. 3 (September 1971): 311. "Charles Woolsey Lyon advertisement," Antiques 94, no. 2 (August 1968): 147, ill.