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Tall case clock |
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Object numberRIF4137 |
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MakerClockmaker William Claggett, 16941749Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 17231785 Casemaker Unknown |
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Dimensions98 1/4 × 21 1/4 × 10 1/2 in. (249.56 × 53.98 × 26.67 cm) |
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Date174050 |
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Current locationBrooklyn Museum of Art |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); yellow poplar, chestnut, and pine (secondary) |
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ProvenanceBrooklyn Museum of Art, New York, 1918 |
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BibliographyLuke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), vol. 2, pp. 336337, 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, 16501830, 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. |