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Rare Shaker Cherry Cased Wall Timepiece John Winkley (1767-1813), Canterbury, New Hampshire, 1792-5
2 – 12 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, MassachusettsUS$6,000 - US$8,000
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Rare Shaker Cherry Cased Wall Timepiece
John Winkley (1767-1813), Canterbury, New Hampshire, 1792-5
Eight-day weight-driven movement with pendulum mounted to verge arbor, the silvered brass dial engraved "John Winkley / CANTERBURY" below mount for blued steel hour and minute hands, resting behind circular aperture in the reverse-painted glazing of a joined round-arch dial door, the joined waist section centering a solid round-arch pendulum door over ogee-molded base, includes weight and pendulum, 22cm wide, 10cm deep, 93cm high (9 1/2in wide, 4 1/2in deep, 37 1/4in high). Dial diam. 5 3/8 in.
Eight-day weight-driven movement with pendulum mounted to verge arbor, the silvered brass dial engraved "John Winkley / CANTERBURY" below mount for blued steel hour and minute hands, resting behind circular aperture in the reverse-painted glazing of a joined round-arch dial door, the joined waist section centering a solid round-arch pendulum door over ogee-molded base, includes weight and pendulum, 22cm wide, 10cm deep, 93cm high (9 1/2in wide, 4 1/2in deep, 37 1/4in high). Dial diam. 5 3/8 in.
Footnotes
Provenance
Collection of Mary Jo Klank. According to oral history, the clock remained in the Shaker community at Canterbury until the 1870s.
Literature
Illustrated in Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Clocks and Clockmakers (Exeter: Adams Brown Co., 1976), p. 168-9, 332; "Shaker Clockmakers," supplement to Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors 7 (Summer 1972), p. 9-12; James T. West, "John Winkley: New Hampshire Clockmaker," National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Bulletin (August 1999): 437-45; John S. Bowman, Shaker Style (New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1995), p. 53; and David Larkin, The Essential Book of Shaker (New York: Universe Publishing, 1995), p. 36.
Note
Clockmaker John Winkley (1767-1813) was a brother in the Canterbury Shaker community from 1792-5. In 1798, he is listed as a clockmaker and resident of Newington, New Hampshire. By 1800, Winkley relocated to Durham, where he died in 1813 at age 46.