Tall Case Clock Clockmaker: Isaac Brokaw (American, 1746–1826)
Maker: (works) James Osborne (active 1808–13)

1805–15

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany (primary); red gum(bottom molding on hood); white pine (side of hood and glue blocks); yellow poplar (back board, bottom board and top of clock)

Dimensions

95 13/16 × 19 3/8 × 9 9/16 in. (243.4 × 49.2 × 24.3 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2095

Geography

Made in Bridgetown, New Jersey

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Timepieces

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Alexander M. Hudnut, New York, and Princeton, NJ; Francis P. Garvan, New York. Gift in 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Edwin A. Battison and Patricia E. Kane, The American Clock, 1725–1865: The Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1973), 98–101, no. 20, ill
  • Brooks Palmer, The Book of American Clocks (New York: MacMillan Company, 1928), no. 47, ill
  • American Art Association, New York, Duncan Phyfe and Other Fine Early American Furniture and Decorations: The Private Collection of Alexander M. Hudnut, Removed from His Country Residence at Princeton, New Jersey, sale cat. (November 19, 1927), 62, lot 81
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

tall case clocks

Marks

'ISAAC BROKAW, BRIDGE TOWN.," painted on dial; "OSBORNE" cast on secondary plate between dial and movement

Inscriptions

"JW," in chalk script, on interior of backboard; "P R C Johnson / March 22 / 1869," in chalk script, verso of waist door

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