Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy of Gary R. Sullivan, photo by David Hansen Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF3222
	Maker Casemaker Unknown Clockmaker William Claggett, 1694–1749
	Dimensions Height: 89 � 19 � 10 1/2 in. (226.06 � 48.26 � 26.67 cm)
	Date 1720–30
	Current location Private collection
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Walnut (primary); yellow poplar (back board)
	Marks "Will Claggett / Newport," engraved on brass nameplate below center arbor
	Inscriptions Nineteenth-century inscriptions [probably cleaning or repair records], in chalk, on interior waist door
	Provenance Possibly Samuel Gorton (1706–1796), Warwick, Rhode Island; possibily by descent to his daughter, Sarah Gorton Bowen (1739–1820) and her husband, Israel Bowen (1733–1819), 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
	Associated names Samuel Gorton Israel Bowen Sarah Gorton Bowen Almira Butters Lewis George E. Vernon and Company William R. Secord William Hutchinson Putnam Albert D. Putnam Skinner, Inc. Robert C. Cheney Skinner, Inc.
	Bibliography Skinner, 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, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 98–99, 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, 158–61, 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.