Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy of Gary R. Sullivan Antiques, Inc., Sharon, Mass.; photo by Matthew J. Buckley Click the image to enlarge	Banjo clock
	Object number RIF4616
	Maker attributed to John Young, 1797?1884 Clockmaker David Williams, 1769?1823
	Dimensions Height: 33 7/8 � 10 � 3 5/16 in. (86.04 � 25.4 � 8.41 cm) Height, movement: 4 1/4 in. (10.795 cm)
	Date ca. 1820
	Current location Private collection
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Marks "D. Williams, Horologist, Providence," in paint, on dial
	Inscriptions "Patent," in paint, on throat glass
	Style Hepplewhite, Federal
	Provenance Private collection
	Notes Movement: 8-day brass “A frame” timepiece
	Bibliography Paul J. Foley, Willard's Patent Time Pieces: A History of the Weight-Driven Banjo Clock, 1800–1900 (Norwell, Mass.: Roxbury Village Publishing, 2002), 89–90, fig. 203–6. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 110, 113n47, 413–14, no. 96, fig. 1.

Banjo clock