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Tall case clock

Object number

RIF6263

Maker

Casemaker Unknown
Clockmaker Josiah Gooding, 1777?1867

Dimensions

87 × 17 3/4 in. (220.98 × 45.09 cm)

Date

1810–20

Current location

Old Colony History Museum

Geography

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

Medium

Walnut, satinwood, brass, and steel

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

Reuben Hall (1743–1839), Raynham, Massachusetts; by descent to his great granddaughter Stella D. Hall (died 1928), Belmont, Massachusetts; bequeathed to the Old Colony History Museum, Taunton, Massachusetts

Associated names

Reuben Hall
Stella D. Hall

Bibliography

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), 426n3.