Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: Paul J. Foley, Williard's Patent Time Pieces: A History of the Weight-Driven Banjo Clock, 1800–1900 (Norwell, Mass.: Roxbury Village Publishing, 2002), 91 Click the image to enlarge	Banjo clock
	Object number RIF4617
	Maker Clockmaker David Williams, 1769–1823 Casemaker John Young, 1797–1884
	Dimensions Height: 42 1/2 in. (107.95 cm) Height, movement: 4 3/8 in. (11.113 cm)
	Date 1818–23
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Marks "D. WILLIAMS," in paint, on throat glass
	Provenance Unknown
	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), 90–91, fig. 207–209. 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), 113n47.

Banjo clock