A Queen Anne ebonised and ivory-mounted siphon barometer
A Queen Anne ebonised and ivory-mounted siphon barometer

DANIEL QUARE, LONDON, NO. 59. CIRCA 1705

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A Queen Anne ebonised and ivory-mounted siphon barometer
Daniel Quare, London, No. 59. Circa 1705
The columnar trunk resting on hinged brass quadraped feet applied with winged cherub heads, the rectangular ebonised plinth supporting a twist column beneath a tapering plain column separated by two ivory collets, the upper structure with a stylised volute to the front, the reverse with a backboard fixed with an iron wall suspension ring, the gilt-brass hood numbered 59 to the lower left side, the engraved silvered brass weather scales signed D. Quare Lond:Fecit and engraved with the various weather conditions and calibrated 28-31 in the normal manner, the sliding steel recording index arm activated from the right side, the top surmounted by two brass urn finials flanking a large brass finial encasing the top of the glass mercury tube
41¾in. (106cm.) high

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: Nicholas Goodison English Barometers 1680-1860, Antique Collectors Club, 1977, pp.206-221.
Although the design of the present barometer is essentially typical of Quare's work, there are no other recorded examples of ebonised barometers with ivory mounts by him. One of its most interesting features is the fluted volute moulding below the hood, which has a sculptural quality that gives the barometer an elegant simplicity and which is departure from the spiral-twisting and stop-fluting seen on the columns of many of Quare's other barometers.

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