{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2bbf81e2-c8bf-447f-a06b-81e502938fd2/manifest","label":"1991-0487","metadata":[{"label":"BFA Number","value":"1991-0487"},{"label":"Source","value":"Decorative Arts Photographic Collection"},{"label":"Rights","value":"Metadata and images digitized from the Decorative Arts Photographic Collection of the Winterthur Library. For reproduction requests or more information, contact DAPC at reference@winterthur.org"},{"label":"Current Owner","value":"Unknown"},{"label":"Context","value":"From Wendell Garrett, 1991 (as per the documentation enclosed with DAPC record): \"With this tall-case clock has come the following undated and unsigned handwritten note: 'Inherited from Thomas Clap manse by my grandmother, Lucy Briggs Clap. Wife of Calvin Damon (son of Galen Damon of South Scituate -- now Norwell). My father, C. Alphonso Damon, son of Calvin, was born in house on land, left corner of Mt. Blue St., and Old Oaken Bucket Road, married Ada Bartlett, a descendent of Josiah Bartlett, who signed the Declaration of Independence. Great-grandfather Galen Damon lived on right corner of Mt. Blues & O.O. Bucket Road, now owned by Mr. Newton. Father's birthplace burnt down 25 or 30 years ago.' From the published town histories (Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Boston, 1831 and Harvey Hunter Pratt, The Early Planters of Scituate, Scituate, 1929) and the most recent biography of Thomas Clap (Louis Leonard Tucker, Puritan Protagonist: President Thomas Clap of Yale College, Chapel Hill, 1962) several interesting though inconclusive pieces of information can be learned about the ownership of this clock in the Clap/Briggs/Damon (or Daman) families. Thomas Clap (1703-1765) was the distinguished and famous president of Yale College from 1740 to 1764. His great-grandfather and namesake, Deacon Thomas Clap had left Dorchester, England, in 1633 to join the migration to Massachusetts and decided to plant ancestral roots in Scituate. Thomas' son Samuel (born early 1640s) and grandson Stephen (born 1670) were men of stringent piety. Stephen Clap, the father of the future president of Yale, was especially active in local political and religious affairs and this durable Puritan lived to the ripe old age of eighty-six. Stephen occupied his father's house on 'White-oak plain...one mile west of the south Meeting-house' in 1690, which was called 'Samuel Clap's new house' in a survey of the road and was known to have been erected before 1686. When Samuel Deane published Scituate in 1831 he reported that the house was 'now occupied by the fifth generation from Dea. Stephen.' Since Thomas Clap had been raised in this house, we assume this is the 'Thomas Clap manse' mentioned in the note. Lucy Briggs Clap is the enigma. We do know that Deacon Stephen Clap's brother Joseph Clap (born 1668) married Hannah Briggs in Scituate in 1732, and they could have had a daughter Lucy Briggs Clap who married Calvin Daman. James Briggs (born 1683), the uncle of Hannah Briggs, married Hannah Barker in 1745, and one of the daughters was Lucy Briggs, and she could have married a Clap and produced a namesake daughter Lucy Briggs Clap. And one Galen Clap was active in town politics in the 1770s and could have been a namesake in the family for Galen Daman. These intriguing pieces of the genealogical puzzle have yet to be resolved.\"  As of 9/2017, a survey of records from Ancestry.com has revealed that Lucy Briggs Clapp is the great-great-niece of Stephen Clapp, father of Yale President, Thomas Clap. According to the note, written by the unidentified child of Ada Bartlett (1835-1924) and C. Alphonso Damon (1834-1906), the latter the son of Lucy Briggs Clapp (1805-1878) and Calvin Damon (1802-1879), the clock was inherited by Lucy through descendants of Thomas Clap (1703-1765), the president of Yale University from 1740-1764. Thomas?ÇÖs great-grandfather, Deacon Thomas Clap (1597-1684) left Dorchester, England and settled in Scituate, Massachusetts in 1633. With his wife Abigail Clap, he bore a son, Samuel Clap (1642-1722). Samuel married Hannah Gill (1645-1722) and they had Stephen Clap (1670-1756). Stephen married Temperance Gorham (1678-1768), and they became parents to the future Yale president, Thomas Clap. Lucy Briggs Clap was the daughter of Leonard Clap (1775-1852) and Elizabeth ?Ç£Betsey?Ç¥ Stetson (1773-1854). Leonard was the son was John Clap (1733-1767) and Jerusha Bailey (1736-1833). John Clap was the son of Thomas Clap (1705-1774) and Mary Leonard (1713-1741). Thomas Clap was the son of John Clap (1670-1722) and Hannah Gill (1681-1739). John Clap?ÇÖs parents were Samuel Clap and Hannah Gill, therefore Lucy Briggs Clapp?ÇÖs great-great-uncle was Stephen Clapp, father of Yale President, Thomas Clap."},{"label":"Subjects (AAT)","value":["Tall case clocks","Floor clocks"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Longcase clocks"]},{"label":"Bibliography","value":"Auction catalog: Sotheby?ÇÖs, New York, Fine Americana (June 26-27, 1991), sale 6201, lot 354.  Book: Frank Hohmann, Timeless: Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocks (New York: Hohmann Holdings, 2009), 150-1."},{"label":"History of Ownership","value":"According to an undated and unsigned, handwritten note, the clock was inherited from Thomas Clap manse by Lucy Briggs Clap, wife of Calvin Damon, and passed down to their son, C. Alphonso Damon, the father of the unnamed author of the note, who presumably was next in line to own the clock. Offered at auction by Sotheby's, June 27, 1991, sale 6201, lot 354."},{"label":"Associated Objects","value":"DAPC number 1991-0488 was erroneously assigned to this piece."},{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Height 95 in. (241.3 cm), Width 17.25 in. (43.8 cm), Depth 9.25 in. (23.5 cm)"},{"label":"Description","value":"Queen Anne-style Japanned tall-case clock made of pine.  The hood is stepped with a domed pediment. At the front corners are wooden plinths atop pierced scrolled fret-work, backed with marbleized paper, just above the decorative molding and scrolled pierced fret-work spandrels. The arched, glazed door is hinged and flanked by three-quarter round, tapered colonettes, opening to an engraved brass dial. The clock denotes time via Roman and Arabic numerals on the clock face dial along with a seconds time ring. In the lunette is dolphin and foliate-cast appliques centering an engraved and applied circle with the clockworks maker's name. The primary section of the dial is mounted with stylized urn and bird cast spandrels.  Cavetto molding separates the waist from the hood. The hinged, arched-molded door is fitted with interior brass strap hinges with fleur-de-lis terminals on a base projecting lower molding below.  The entire case is japanned with chinoiserie motifs on a black and vermillion tortoise shell ground. The case door and lower front base panel with painted and gilded raised gesso ornament. The remaining ornament is gilt and black painted on a vermillion background. The upper section of the hood has gilt flower sprays above side light surrounds painted with birds and similar sprays. The hood door has meandering vines interrupted by diapers, the interior dial surround, rear hood colonettes and case door surround with birds and flowers. The door painted with a large vignette with pavilions by the sea within a landscape with trees, birds, clouds, and a sun with a human face, with figures paddling boats in the foreground above two hens and a small landscape with boats, within a meandering vine and diaper surround. The lower front base panel is decorated with pavilions with boats and a reclining figure being served by an attendant. The sides of the waisted case with large blossom sprays with leaves and birds. The lower side panels with a pavilion and a stork.  The clock bears the inscription in black in on the backboard: [Peter Stelling] : the rest of the inscription is illegible. The clock bears the vertical inked inscription on the top of the left saddleboard support: [June ye 7, 1740] and the lead pendulum bob bears the incised date: [1740]. The top right hand saddleboard support bears the calligraphic inscription in vermillion paint: [Canterbury Tune] followed by musical bars and notes. The lunette is inscribed: [JOHN DOANE, SCITUATE] and appears to retain some traces of the original silvering."},{"label":"Date Digitized","value":"7/20/2018"},{"label":"Marks, Signatures, and Inscriptions","value":"Signed in black ink on backboard: [Peter Stelling] : rest of inscription is illegible.  Inscribed lunette: [JOHN DOANE, SCITUATE].  Inscribed in ink on left saddleboard support: [June ye 7, 1740].  Incised on pendulum: [1740].  Saddleboard support bears the calligraphic inscription in vermillion paint: [Canterbury Tune]."},{"label":"Materials","value":"Pine; Gilding; Paint"},{"label":"Style","value":["Queen Anne"]},{"label":"Basis of Date","value":"The left saddleboard is inscribed in ink with the date of June 7, 1740. The pendulum is also inscribed with the year, 1740."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1740"},{"label":"Basis of Origin","value":"Peter Stelling, who made the clock case, was a cabinetmaker active in Boston from about 1730-1760. Doane, responsible for making the mechanical clock works and face, inscribed the dial in his name above 'Scituate.' Thomas Johnston was active in Boston as a japanner, painter, engraver, and looking glass seller from 1728-1762."},{"label":"Place of Origin","value":"Boston, Massachusetts; Scituate, Massachusetts"},{"label":"Basis of Maker Attribution","value":"Signed by Stelling on the backboard. Inscribed by Doane on the clock face. Japanning attributed to Thomas Johnston by Frank Hohmann, Timeless: Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocks (New York: Hohmann Holdings, 2009), 150."},{"label":"Maker","value":["Johnston, Thomas, Sr., japanner, painter, engraver, and looking glass seller, 1708-1767, active 1728-1762","Stelling, Peter, cabinetmaker, about 1710-1770, active about 1730-1760","Doane, John, clockmaker, 1664-1755"]},{"label":"Other Name","value":"Long case clock; Grandfather clock; Grandfather's clock; Longcase clock; Tall clock"},{"label":"Object Type","value":["Clock"]},{"label":"Object Use","value":"Household accessories"},{"label":"Category","value":"Furniture"},{"label":"Title","value":"Tall case clock"},{"label":"Date Modified","value":"7/20/2018"}],"description":"Tall case clock","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2bbf81e2-c8bf-447f-a06b-81e502938fd2/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1991-0487-001_overall","height":1500,"width":339,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b5010471-6454-4f73-a6f0-28db68ffee7b/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b5010471-6454-4f73-a6f0-28db68ffee7b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1500,"width":339},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2bbf81e2-c8bf-447f-a06b-81e502938fd2/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b5010471-6454-4f73-a6f0-28db68ffee7b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2bbf81e2-c8bf-447f-a06b-81e502938fd2/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1991-0487-002_hood","height":1500,"width":1171,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/14ba6ff1-3fd8-496d-aa64-68bb0ad624af/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/14ba6ff1-3fd8-496d-aa64-68bb0ad624af","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1500,"width":1171},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/2bbf81e2-c8bf-447f-a06b-81e502938fd2/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/14ba6ff1-3fd8-496d-aa64-68bb0ad624af/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/b5010471-6454-4f73-a6f0-28db68ffee7b/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}