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Tall case clock |
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Object numberRIF184 |
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MakerCasemaker UnknownClockmaker William Claggett, 1694?1749 |
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Dimensions100 1/4 × 21 3/8 × 11 5/8 in. (254.636 × 54.293 × 29.528 cm) Width, dial: 11 7/8 in. (30.163 cm) |
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Dateca. 1740 movement; ca. 1765 case |
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Current locationThe Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); chestnut (backboard of case, back of hood, seat block, and base); white pine (interior blocking); aspen (interior blocking) |
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Marks"Will Claggett/ Newport," engraved on rectangular nameplate on dial |
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StyleChippendale |
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ProvenanceTaken to New Brunswick, Canada, from Newport, Rhode Island, by a Loyalist family during the Revolution; by descent in that family; sold to Harry B. Carleton, Nova Scotia, and East Providence, Rhode Island; sold to The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, in 1972 |
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Associated namesHenry B. Carleton |
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ConstructionThe arched, crown-molded, removable hood is surmounted by spherical, fluted finials with corkscrew flames, each on a plain rectangular plinth. Below the central finial is a ressaulted and scroll-carved multi-level keystone, on either side of which is an arched frieze, mounted with scrolling brass fretwork in vegetal motifs. The thumb-molded stiles and rails of the arched and glazed door are tenoned together without wood pins. The door opens to a brass dial and works, and is flanked by brass-stop-fluted colonnettes in front and brass-stop-fluted half-colonnettes in back. In the waist of the case below is a convex-blocked, shell-carved arched door, flanked by stop-fluted quarter columns with brass capitals and bases. The arched, thumb-molded top rail is mitered to its flanking stiles. The carved shell is applied above the convex door panel. At the back of the door is a quarter round applied molding, nailed with brads to the stiles and rails. The base has plain, chamfered corners, ending in lambs? tongues below. Its front face is an applied, thumb-molded panel within a mitered frame. Examined by P. E. Kane, September 2007; notes compiled by T. B. Lloyd. |
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See also |
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BibliographyBarry A. Greenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia, 1974), 9698, no. 83, ill.William H. Distin and Robert Bishop, The American Clock: A Comprehensive Pictorial Survey, 17231900: With a Listing of 6153 Clockmakers (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1976), 24, fig. 29. Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 31, fig. 1.12. Frank L. Hohmann III et al., Timeless: Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocks (New York: Hohmann Holdings, 2009), 280281, no. 83, ill. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 111n19. Tara Gleason Chicirda and Mack Cox, "A Rhode Island Cabinetmaker in Kentucky: Revelations of a Clock Reexamined," American Furniture (2018): 17879, 183, fig. 1314, 23. Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2018), 7475, 14849, 17679, 242, no. 8, WC-35, fig. 1.67, 5.20. |