Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Skinner, Inc., Boston and Marlborough, Mass. Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF4620
	Maker Casemaker Unknown Clockmaker Thomas Wagstaff, 1724?1802
	Dimensions Height: 90 1/2 in. (229.87 cm)
	Date 1770–90
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Probably made in Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Walnut (primary); chestnut (secondary)
	Marks "Thos. Wagstaffe / London," engraved on dial
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Jethro Starbuck (1671–1770), Nantucket, Massachusetts; by descent in the Starbuck family; by descent to William Benjamin Weeks (1870–1963), Providence, Rhode Island, by 1900. Skinner, Boston, November 8, 2009, lot 58
	Associated names Jethro Starbuck Descendants of Jethro Starbuck William Benjamin Weeks Skinner, Inc.
	Construction The removable arched board has a molded crown above an arched molding and turned colonettes, flanking an arched molded and glazed door opening to a silvered dial and movement. The case contains a flat, thumb-molded and arched hinged door above a simple flat base and base molding. Examined by P.E. Kane, November 7, 2009; notes compiled by T.B. Lloyd.
	Bibliography Skinner, Inc., Boston, American Furniture and Decorative Arts, sale cat. (November 8, 2009), 23, lot 58, ill. 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), 112n26.

Tall case clock