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Tall case clock

Object number

RIF5709

Maker

Clockmaker Squire Millerd, 1749–1820
Alternate name(s): Squire Millard
Casemaker Unknown

Dimensions

72 × 19 1/2 × 11 in. (182.88 × 49.53 × 27.94 cm)

Date

1775–95

Current location

Stanley Weiss Collection

Geography

Made in Warwick, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Cherry; silvered brass (dial)

Marks

"Squire / Millerd / Warwick," engraved, on dial

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Private collection, Rhode Island; the Stanley Weiss Collection, Providence, Rhode Island, 2010 and 2013

Associated names

Private Collection

Bibliography

"A Cherry Queen Anne Tall Case Clock with Silver Dial," http://www.tildenthurber.com/stanleyweiss/pages/items13/sw01304.html (accessed April 23, 2013), item sw01304.
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), 423n1.
Stanley Weiss and Brock Jobe, Fine American Antiques in the Stanley Weiss Collection (Providence, R.I.: Stanley Weiss Collection, 2019), 29, sw01304, ill.