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Tall case clock

Object number

RIF3045

Maker

Casemaker Unknown
Clockmaker Isaac Anthony, 1690?1773

Dimensions

97 × 19 × 9 1/2 in. (246.381 × 48.26 × 24.13 cm)

Date

1750–70

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Mahogany

Marks

"Isaac Anthony NEWPORT," engraved on applied plaque

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, January 16–17, 1999, lot 697

Associated names

Sotheby's

Bibliography

Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, Furniture, and Folk Art, sale cat. (January 16–17, 1999), 197–98, lot 697, 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), 112n25.