Photo: Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Margaret Buffinton Brown in memory of G. Winthrop Brown, 39.546
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Tall case clock |
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Object numberRIF4027 |
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MakerClockmaker William Claggett, 16941749Casemaker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight: 92 1/4 in. (234.316 cm) |
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Date172030 |
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Current locationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumPine |
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ProvenanceGeorge Winthrop Brown (18661938), Boston, Massachusetts, by 1917; by descent to Margaret Buffington Brown; given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1939 |
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Associated namesMargaret Buffington BrownGeorge Winthrop Brown |
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BibliographyWilliam H. Distin and Robert Bishop, The American Clock: A Comprehensive Pictorial Survey, 17231900: With a Listing of 6153 Clockmakers (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1976), 2627, fig. 35.Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), vol. 2, pp. 282283, fig. 839. 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), 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. |