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Tall case clock |
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Object numberRIF3222 |
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MakerClockmaker William Claggett, 16941749Casemaker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight: 89 × 19 × 10 1/2 in. (226.06 × 48.26 × 26.67 cm) |
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Date172030 |
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Current locationPrivate Collection |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumWalnut (primary); yellow poplar (back board) |
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Marks"Will Claggett / Newport," engraved on brass nameplate below center arbor |
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InscriptionsNineteenth-century inscriptions [probably cleaning or repair records], in chalk, on interior waist door |
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ProvenancePossibly Samuel Gorton (17061796), Warwick, Rhode Island; possibily by descent to his daughter, Sarah Gorton Bowen (17391820) and her husband, Israel Bowen (17331819), Summit, Rhode Island; by descent to their great, great, granddaughter Almira Butters Lewis, Coventry, Rhode Island; sold to George E. Vernon and Company, Newport, Rhode Island; sold by their agent William R. Secord, Hartford, Connecticut, to William H. Putnam, Hartford, Connecticut, 1929; by descent to his son Albert D. Putnam, Hartford, Connecticut; consigned to Skinner, Boston and Bolton, Massachusetts (sale held Bolton), January 11, 1992, lot 133A; sold to Robert C. Cheney, Boston and Brimfield, Massachusetts; private collection, Connecticut; consigned to Skinner, Boston and Marlborough, Massachusetts (sale held Marlborough), November 20, 2010, lot 495. Private collection, before 2014 |
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Associated namesGeorge E. Vernon and CompanyWilliam R. Secord Skinner, Inc. Israel Bowen Sarah Gorton Bowen Robert C. Cheney Skinner, Inc. William Hutchinson Putnam Samuel Gorton Albert D. Putnam Almira Butters Lewis |
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BibliographySkinner, Inc., Bolton, Mass., Americana, sale cat. (January 11, 1992), lot 133A, ill."Lot 495, Queen Anne Walnut Tall Clock by William Claggett," http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/8140692 (accessed December 22, 2010). 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), 9899, fig. 1, 2 (detail). Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2018), 24, 142, 15861, 240, no. 1, WC-1. The Claggetts of Newport: Master Clockmakers in Colonial America, exh. cat. (Newport, R I.: Redwood Library and Athenaeum, 2019), 9, ill. |