A DOCUMENTED EAGLE INLAID FEDERAL TALL CASE CLOCK With Works signed and made by Robert Joyce
Case Made and Labelled by Slover And Kortwright, New York, (partnership lasted from 1795-1796), New York 1795-1796 Primary Wood: Mahogany Secondary Woods: White Pine, Tulip Poplar Height: 98 inches, Width: 19 inches, Depth: 9 1 / 2 inches Provenance: Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York; Private Collection, Wisconsin
Reference: The clock appears in William C. Ketchum, Jr., American Cabinetmakers - Marked American Furniture, 1640 - 1940, pages 315 - 316. For information on Robert Joyce see Distin and Bishop, The American Clock , page 316, and Brooks Palmer, The Book of American Clocks , page 235. Robert Joyce was a London trained clock maker whose clients in New York included Alexander Hamilton. Perhaps his most famous clock was made for Hamilton who gave it to the Bank of New York in 1797. That clock is currently in The New York Historical Society collection. A second Joyce clock associated with Hamilton is at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 2004.24. That clock was given by Hamilton to the Philadelphia based First Bank of the United States around 1797. Slover and Cortwright were in partnership for only two years, 1795-6, at 30 Cortland Street.
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