Tall Clock Case with Blue-lacquer Case, about 1760
date: label: date made
content: ca 1760
name: label: maker
content: Rogers, Isaac
notes: label: Description
content: The Ryerson family, prominent 18th-century landowners in Brooklyn, New York, purchased this clock about 1760. The imported clock, made in England in the third quarter of the eighteenth century, was a rarity in its time and signaled the purchasers’ wealth, taste and status in colonial society.
label: Description
content: The clock features an eight-day, weight-driven brass movement that strikes the hours. The brass dial features a date aperture, a silvered chapter ring with Roman hour numerals and silvered signature plaque signed “Isaac Rogers/London.” The case features a blue finish made to imitate the then-mysterious techniques of Japanese and Chinese lacquer work.
label: Description
content: Isaac Rogers had a trade establishment and watchmaking business at White Hart Court, Lombard Street, London. Timepieces for the Ottoman market were among his specialties. His son, also Isaac Rogers, succeeded him in business and became a master in the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, London.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Rogers, Isaac. <i>The Dictionary of National Biography,</i> 1897.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (movement; weights)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (case; case door; case fragments; case hood; case key; case panel fragments; pendulum; winding key)
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. J. Ryerson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0852.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0852.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0852
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tall case clock, English--movement and dial only
label: Object Name
content: tall case clock