Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Skinner, Inc., Boston and Marlborough, Mass. Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF3549
	Maker Casemaker Unknown Clockmaker Caleb Wheaton, American, 1757?1827
	Dimensions Height, case: 91 3/4 in. (233.046 cm) Height, with finials: 96 1/4 in. (244.476 cm)
	Date 1780–90
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Providence, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks "Caleb Wheaton Providence," engraved on dial
	Inscriptions "Ab hoc momento pendet aeternitas" engraved on dial
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Skinner, Inc., Boston and Bolton, Massachusetts (sale held Bolton), February 24, 2001, lot 386
	Associated names Skinner, Inc.
	Bibliography Skinner, Inc., Bolton, Mass., American Furniture and Decorative Arts: Featuring the Folk Art Collection of Milton Simpson, sale cat. (February 24, 2001), 55, lot 386, ill. "Skinner, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 159, no. 1 (January 2001): 100, 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), 111nn4, 18.

Tall case clock