A GRAIN-PAINTED TALL-CASE CLOCK

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A GRAIN-PAINTED TALL-CASE CLOCK
RILEY WHITING, WINCHESTER, CONNECTICUT, CIRCA 1820

The arched hood with swan's neck pediment with painted circular temini and centering a plinth above molded cornice over an arched glazed panel door revealing a painted dial with Roman and Arabic chapter rings enclosing a sweep seconds ring and calender day aperture surmounted by a lunette embellished with a central bouquet encircled by meandering gilt vines and pink swags, the spandrels embellished with gilt painted scrolling vines, the dial signed R. WHITING WINCHESTER, all flanked by tapering collonettes above a waisted case centering a grain-painted cuboard door flanked by black-painted quarter columns with gray-painted capitals and plinths centering black-painted reserves above a black-painted rectangular reserve centering a gilt-painted urn with scrolling vines over a grain-painted rectangular box base with a shaped skirt on bracket feet--86in. high, 17in. wide, 10¼in. wide

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Wooden work clocks, developed by Eli Terry in the late 18th century, were an affordable alternative to the brass movement clocks. Riley Whiting is recorded as working in Winchester and Winstead, Connecticut during the first half of the nineteenth century.

A grain-painted case with wooden works by Riley Whiting is in the collection of the Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village is illustrated and discussed in Distin and Bishop, The American Clock, (New York, 1976), p. 55, fig. 103.