A QUEEN ANNE CARVED WALNUT TALL-CASE CLOCK, DIAL SIGNED BY THOMAS CLAGGETT (C.1730-1797), NEWPORT; THE CASE, BOSTON, CIRCA 1750

A QUEEN ANNE CARVED WALNUT TALL-CASE CLOCK
DIAL SIGNED BY THOMAS CLAGGETT (C.1730-1797), NEWPORT; THE CASE, BOSTON, CIRCA 1750
the composite brass dial signed Thomas / Claggett / NEWPORT; interior of upper backboard with handwritten inscription in chalk possibly reading Ramsey
92 in. high, 18 ½ in. wide, 9 ½ in deep

Special Notice
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Provenance
John Walton, Inc., New York, 1969

Saleroom Notice
Please note that this lot will be held at Christie's Rockefeller Center until Monday January 22nd and then will be transferred to CFASS on Tuesday January 23rd.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN FOUNDATION

Literature
John S. Walton Antiques, Inc., advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (February 1969), p. 172.
Richard L. Champlin, "William Claggett and His Clockmaking Family," Newport History: Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society 47, Part 3 (Summer 1974), p. 178.
Richard L. Champlin, "William Claggett and His Clockmaking Family," Supplement to the Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc. 11 (Summer 1976), pp. 26–27, figs. 14–15.
Leigh Keno, Joan Barzilay Freund and Alan Miller, "'The Very Pink of the Mode': Boston Georgian Chairs, Their Export, and Their Influence," American Furniture 1996, Luke Beckerdite, ed. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1996), pp. 294, 305 (fn. 53), fig. 43.
The Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery, RIF2408.

Exhibited
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, until 2016.