Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Brooklyn Museum, accession no. 18.156 Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF4137
	Maker Casemaker Unknown Maker, formerly attributed to John Goddard, American, 1723?1785 Clockmaker William Claggett, 1694?1749
	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 (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); yellow poplar, chestnut, and pine (secondary)
	Style Queen Anne
	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.

Tall case clock