Photo: Courtesy Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, 2001.260
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Tall case clock |
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Object numberRIF2585 |
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MakerCasemaker UnknownMaker, possibly by Townsend Goddard, 1750?1790 Clockmaker Caleb Wheaton, American, 1757?1827 |
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DimensionsHeight: 97 1/2 in. (247.651 cm) |
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Dateca. 1790 |
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Current locationNewport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island |
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GeographyMade in Providence, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany |
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Marks"Caleb Wheaton / Providence," painted on dial |
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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 |
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StyleChippendale |
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ProvenancePossibly 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 (19121993) for Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, 1973; Whitehorne House Museum, Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, from 1974 |
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Associated namesMajor Thomas WilliamsCharles Woolsey Lyon Sotheby Parke Bernet Doris Duke |
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Bibliography"Charles Woolsey Lyon advertisement," Antiques 94, no. 2 (August 1968): 147, ill."Charles Woolsey Lyon advertisement," Antiques 100, no. 3 (September 1971): 311. 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. |