Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy of Gary R. Sullivan, photo by David Hansen Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF4060
	Maker Clockmaker William Claggett, 1694–1749 Casemaker Unknown
	Date 1730–49
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Walnut (primary); walnut (some blocks on dial mat, hinge blocks); pine (top of dial mat, roof board, some blocks on dial mat); yellow poplar (sides of dial mat); oak (bottom of dial mat)
	Marks "Will Claggett / Newport," engraved on tab below center arbor
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, by 1933. Private collection, 2019
	Associated names The Rhode Island Historical Society
	Bibliography Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury (New York: MacMillan Company, 1963), no. 3319, ill. Brooks Palmer, The Book of American Clocks (New York: MacMillan Company, 1950), 27, fig. 13. Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2018), 242, WC-29.

Tall case clock