Photo: Courtesy Stanley Weiss Collection, Providence, R.I.
Click the image to enlarge
|
Tall case clock |
|
Object numberRIF5835 |
||
MakerCasemaker UnknownClockmaker Caleb Wheaton, American, 17571827 |
||
Dimensions91 1/2 × 21 7/8 × 10 in. (232.4 × 55.6 × 25.4 cm) |
||
Date178090 |
||
Current locationStanley Weiss Collection |
||
GeographyMade in Providence, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
||
MediumMahogany (primary); mahogany (dial mat blocks); maple (back of hood and blocks to support saddle board); chestnut (back board, guides for hood, and back of pediment); pine (cores of moldings at top of waist) |
||
Marks"Caleb Wheaton / Providence," engraved, in dial arch |
||
Inscriptions"AB HOC MOMENTO PENDET AETERNITAS," engraved below winding arbors |
||
ProvenanceThe Stanley Weiss Collection, Providence, Rhode Island, 2010 |
||
Bibliography"Reserve Inventory," http://www.tildenthurber.com/stanleyweiss/pages/items7/sw00778r.html (accessed August 27, 2010), sw00778.Stanley Weiss and Brock Jobe, Fine American Antiques in the Stanley Weiss Collection (Providence, R.I.: Stanley Weiss Collection, 2019), 30, sw00778, ill. |