拍品 11
11
AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY STYLE RED LACQUERED COLUMN BAROMETER

细节
AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY STYLE RED LACQUERED COLUMN BAROMETER
in the style of Daniel Quare or John Patrick, the silvered register plates with two blued steel recorders, the giltmetal hood with foliate engraving and domed top with three finials, the two-part lacquered column with plain upper and spirally turned lower section, the squared lacquered pedestal with four hinged feet having mask mounts
40¾in. (103.5cm.) high

拍品专文

There is a very similar anonymous lacquered column barometer illustrated in R W Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, 1929, fig. 254, p.302, and also in The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev.ed. 1954, Vol.1, fig.12, p.30