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Tall case clock

Object number

RIF4023

Maker

Casemaker Unknown
Clockmaker Walter Cornell, American, 1777?after 1855

Dimensions

Height: 92 in. (233.681 cm)

Date

1800–1810

Current location

Unknown

Geography

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

Medium

Mahogany and mahogany veneer

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan; deaccessioned in 1940

Associated names

The Henry Ford

Bibliography

William H. Distin and Robert Bishop, The American Clock: A Comprehensive Pictorial Survey, 1723–1900: With a Listing of 6153 Clockmakers (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1976), 49, fig. 90.