An American Chippendale Tall Case Clock

c. 1790

An American Chippendale tall case clock (Newport, c. 1790) attributed to the Townsend-Goddard Workshops, with work by Caleb Wheaton of Providence. The clock case is Santo Domingo mahogany with a tall arched central door with a convex shell carving. The bonnet has four fluted doric colonnettes supporting an arched hood surmounted with a central brass finial - possibly a later addition - of an egale perched atop a sphere. The clock works consist of a silvered dial with black Roman numerals below a smaller painted dial depicting phases of the moon and inscribed with "Caleb Wheaton, Providence" in script. The clock is supported on a square plinth base with four bracketed feet.

Rhode Island Furniture Archive Number: RIF2256

American

Mahogany (primary); chestnut (backboard and glue blocks); pine (molding on interior of waist door)

88" x 19" x 10 1/4"

Gift of Elizabeth Morris Smith.

PSNC.1764a-c

April 1995: "Newport." The Magazine Antiques. April 1995. p. 552.