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Tall case clock

Object number

RIF4137

Maker

Clockmaker William Claggett, 1694–1749
Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723–1785
Casemaker Unknown

Dimensions

98 1/4 × 21 1/4 × 10 1/2 in. (249.56 × 53.98 × 26.67 cm)

Date

1740–50

Current location

Brooklyn Museum of Art

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); yellow poplar, chestnut, and pine (secondary)

Provenance

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, 1918

Bibliography

Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), vol. 2, pp. 336–337, fig. 228.
"Brooklyn Museum, Collections: Decorative Arts: Tall Clock," http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/10509/Tall_Clock (accessed September 22, 2011).
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), 112n25.
Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2018), 241, WC-20.