James Whitnell, Newcastle a Georgian mahogany longcase clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, the thirteen-inch painted break-arch dial having subsidiary seconds and date dials to the centre, black Roman hour numerals with painted floral decoration to the four corners and painted peacocks within the arch, signed to the centre J. Whitnell, Newcastle, with gilt-brass decorative hands, the mahogany case having an arched door and turned quarter-columns to the trunk, with an inset panel above, the break-arch hood having turned columns and surmounted by cresting, the base with mahogany crossbanding and standing on bun feet, height 224cms. * Biography James Whitnell is recorded as working in Newcastle from before 1834 until at least 1848.