Photo: Courtesy Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Ida Littlefield Fund, 84.149; photo by Erik Gould
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Tall case clock |
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Object numberRIF3467 |
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MakerCasemaker UnknownClockmaker William Stanton, 1794?1878 |
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Dimensions95 × 21 11/16 × 10 5/8 in. (241.3 × 55.09 × 26.99 cm) |
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Date1816 |
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Current locationMuseum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design |
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GeographyMade in Providence, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany and mahogany veneer (primary); pine (secondary); brass (works), ivory, and enamel |
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Marks"William Stanton / Providence / 1816," painted on dial |
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StyleChippendale |
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ProvenanceBy descent in the Dyer family, North Kingstown and Providence, Rhode Island. Robert Mower, Marion, Massachusetts; sold to Ida Ballou Littlefield, before 1984; given to the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1984 |
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Associated namesDyer familyRobert Mower |
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Bibliography"Museum Notes," Rhode Island School of Design (1983): vol. 72, no. 2 (October 1985): 24.Christopher P. Monkhouse and Thomas S. Michie, American Furniture in Pendleton House (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1986), 9092, no. 35, ill. 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), 113n43, 439n5. |