A LATE GEORGE III INLAID MAHOGANY WHEEL BAROMETER

SIGNED BY DOMINICK MANTICHA, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A LATE GEORGE III INLAID MAHOGANY WHEEL BAROMETER
Signed by Dominick Manticha, late 18th century
The engraved steel dial signed 'Manticha fecit' beneath a thermometer, the shaped banjo-form case inlaid with paterae and with chequered edge overall, inscribed in pencil on the reverse 'A.M....' and 'No. 15/4,' with printed paper label 'J.SOMALVILO & CO./MAKERS LONDON/18 CHARLES ST. HATTON GARDENS' and inscribed in ink 'Repaired 8/8/94' and with incised number '3122/1'
36in. high, 10in. wide

Lot Essay

Dominick Manticha, recorded at 11 Ely Court, Holborn in 1805, was one of a group of Italian craftsmen working in London in the late eighteeth and early nineteenth centuries. For further discussion of Manticha's work, see N. Goodison, English Barometers 1680-1860 (Woodbridge, 1977), p. 176-178.