细节
DAN. QUARE, LONDON: A QUEEN ANNE IVORY DOUBLE-SIDED COLUMN BAROMETER No. 95
circa 1710
The double-sided silvered scales signed on one side Invented and made by D. Quare, London and on the other Faits portatifs par D. Quare à Londres and numbered 95 on the ivory beneath, calibrated in Quare's usual form for 28-31in., each with two blued steel recorders, the giltmetal hood with profuse acanthus engraving, the front edges with wheatear engraving, the swivel suspension bracket and signature box below, three finials to the arched top, the outer two for adjusting the recorders, the slender ivory column of four sections with three brass collars, the lowest with similar acanthus engraving, the four folding giltmetal feet headed with leaves and lion masks against lambrequins and with scroll terminations
36¾in. (93.5cm.) high
出版
Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 1st ed., 1924, Vol.I, p.14, fig.10. and rev. ed. 1954, p.30, fig.10
R W Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, 1929, p.303, fig.257
R W Symonds, Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, 1940, pp.160-65, fig. 122, 125-26
Country Life, 1 September 1966, p.491, fig.4
Nicholas Goodison, English Barometers and their Makers, 1680-1860, p.201n.
