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Spruance Family Tall Case Clock by Richard Miller
​ Duck Creek DE

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Works by Richard Miller
Case attributed to John Janvier, Sr. (1749-1801)
​Duck Creek Hundred (now Smyrna) DE
Walnut, poplar
8-day silvered brass dial
Circa 1785
H: 106”; W: 21”; D: 11”

This clock descended in the Spruance family, Quakers who were pre-Revolutionary War residents of Duck Creek (Smyrna). This clock was likely made for Presley Spruance (1752-1837), a successful farmer with a 400 acre plantation who lived in Kent County his entire life. He was also a Road Commissioner and Assessor for Duck Creek Hundred. Presley died in 1837 and is buried at Bryn Zion Cemetery near Duck Creek Crossroads (now Smyrna), Delaware.

John Janvier Sr was born in Newcastle, Del., and trained in Philadelphia. Recent scholarship suggests that he moved to Elkton, Md., soon after 1770 and settled in Odessa around 1775. A series of horizontal boards, rather than a single vertical board, distinguish the backs of his cases and the idiosyncratic central finial is unique to Janvier. 

Little is known of the clock maker Richard Miller. He doesn’t appear in records but his name is on clocks and occasionally his place of business, Duck Creek Crossroads. Five signed Miller clock movements are housed in Janvier-type cases. Recently scholar Richard Zimmerman in his book, Delaware Clocks made a connection between the Miller family of clockmakers, working around Elizabeth Town, New Jersey during the latter part of the 18th century, and the brass dial clocks signed ‘Richard Miller, Duck Creek’. The signed Richard Miller clocks all suggest a marked similarity to the clocks of Aaron Miller and his several apprentices of northern New Jersey.  Zimmerman uncovered the story of Richard Miller’s hasty retreat from New Jersey to Duck Creek in 1779 in order to escape persecution as a Tory. It is believed that Miller was reluctant to sign his clocks until after the hostilities had subsided.






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  • Inventory
    • New Items >
      • View of New Brighton, Pennsylvania
      • Philadelphia Regulator Tall Case Clock Signed on the dial by Thomas Voight, with works by John Childs
      • Tall Case Clock by Valentine Urtelig
      • Monumental Astronomical Regulator Clock from Chicago Store of J.S. Townsend
      • Commedia Dell'Arte
      • Rock Pool in Spring
      • The Port of Livorno
      • Mexican American War Snuff Gold Snuff Box
      • Portrait of the Artist, Benjamin West
      • The Snowden Family Armchair
    • Furniture >
      • Double Chest Signed by Jonathan Shoemaker
      • Blocked End Reverse Serpentine Chest of Drawers
      • Paint Decorated Table
      • Carved, Inlaid and Painted Flag Table
      • Oley Valley Paint Decorated Chest of Drawers
      • Simon Cameron's Armchair
      • Dressing Table, Southeastern Pennsylvania, circa 1740-1750
      • Philadelphia Dressing Table, circa 1770
    • Clocks >
      • Gold Pocket Watch by Thomas Tompion of London, made for the Mifflin family
      • Isaac Jackson Tall Case Clock
      • Tall Case Clock by John Fisher, York Town
      • Mitchell and Vance Newel Post Clock
      • Barometer with Clock
      • Tall Case Clock by Daniel Rose
      • Important Alexandria, Virginia Tall Case Clock Clock
      • Inlaid Clock From New Jersey
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      • Mermaid Fraktur from Lebanon Township
      • Pair of Portraits from the Moore-Robinson family of Virginia
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      • At River's Bend
      • A Pair of Portraits by Francis Cezeron
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      • Portrait of A Doylestown Ohio Farm
      • Country Residence of H.G. Moser, Mechanicsburg
      • Watercolors of the Four Seasons
      • Portrait of a Steamship
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      • Chicago Zouaves
      • Portrait of a Hound, circa 1840
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      • Missouri Rustic Landscape by Edward Sachse
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      • Still Life with Peaches, William Mason Brown
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      • Paint Decorated Sewing Box
      • Carved and Painted Urn
      • 1830 Paint Decorated Bedstead
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      • Miniature Copper Kettle
      • Rare 1849 Nautical Presentation Trumpet1853 Newark, New Jersey Presentation Trumpet
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      • 1854 Savannah Georgia Presentation Trumpet
      • 1853 Mobile Alabama Presentation Trumpet
      • Monumental Carved Stone Lions
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      • Harman Brothers Whiskey Merchants Cooler
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