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From: Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America , vol. 2 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926) 282-283, fig. 840
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Tall case clock

Object number

RIF4154

Maker

Clockmaker William Claggett, 1694–1749
Casemaker Unknown

Date

1725–35

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Provenance

Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, by 1926

Associated names

The Rhode Island Historical Society

Bibliography

Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), vol. 2, pp. 282–283, fig. 840.
Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2018), 241, WC-23.