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The Magazine Antiques | May 1, 2009| | Copyright

At some point between 1725 and 1740 the Newport clockmaker William Claggett fitted a musical eight-day clock with a moon dial inside a tall pine case with a japanned finish (Figs. 1, 2). It is one of six clocks he is known to have fitted into japanned cases, but intriguingly, in this instance the case was originally a brilliant powder blue with a slight shimmer, a finish not known on any other piece of eighteenth-century American japanned furniture. (1) Over time the surface has turned yellow-green due to oxidation of the varnish and fading of the pigments, but a recent ...

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