Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
Los 683
Thomas Nevitt, Bristol A mahogany moonphase longcase clock, the eight day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, the 12 inch arched brass dial having a silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals and outer Arabic minute numerals, the matted centre having engraved floral decoration, a subsidiary seconds dial engraved with the maker’s name ‘Thos. Nevitt, Bristol’, and date aperture, with cast brass ‘floral & rococo’ spandrels to the four corners, the arch having a moon phase disc with the arch showing ‘High Water at Bristol Key’, with blued steel hands, the mahogany case having a plain base with fluted, canted corners to the trunk, typical Bristol shaped moulding to the top of the trunk door, a swan neck pediment with dentil moulding below and fluted columns with brass capitals to the hood, height 132cm. * Thomas Nevitt is recorded as working in Temple Parish, Bristol becoming a burgess, through marriage, in 1754. He was known to be still working in 1784 when he is recorded in the Poll book.
