Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Margaret Buffinton Brown in memory of G. Winthrop Brown, 39.546 Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF4027
	Maker Clockmaker William Claggett, 1694–1749 Casemaker Unknown
	Dimensions Height: 92 1/4 in. (234.316 cm)
	Date 1720–30
	Current location Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Pine
	Provenance George Winthrop Brown (1866–1938), Boston, Massachusetts, by 1917; by descent to Margaret Buffington Brown; given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1939
	Associated names Margaret Buffington Brown George Winthrop Brown
	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), 26–27, fig. 35. Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), vol. 2, pp. 282–283, fig. 839. 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), 111n7. Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2018), 240, WC-5.

Tall case clock