Object Details
maker
Rogers, Isaac
Description
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.
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.
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.
Reference:
Rogers, Isaac. The Dictionary of National Biography, 1897.
Location
Currently not on view
Currently not on view (movement; weights)
Currently not on view (case; case door; case fragments; case hood; case key; case panel fragments; pendulum; winding key)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. J. Ryerson
date made
ca 1760
ID Number
1987.0852.01
catalog number
1987.0852.01
accession number
1987.0852
Object Name
tall case clock, English--movement and dial only
tall case clock
fragments, cabinet
Physical Description
wood (overall: case material)
place made
United Kingdom: England
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1203261