DAN. DELANDER, LONDON: AN EXCEPTIONAL GEORGE I EBONY AND SILVER MOUNTED STICK BAROMETER

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DAN. DELANDER, LONDON: AN EXCEPTIONAL GEORGE I EBONY AND SILVER MOUNTED STICK BAROMETER
circa 1725-30
The architectural case of oak veneered with ebony and surmounted by three brass finials applied with contrasting silver foliate decoration, the silver tablet below signed Delander Fecit, framed with bolection moulding, the entablature supported on silver capped, based and reeded Composite columns flanking the silver register plates with fine acanthus engraving, the scales divided 28"-31" with blued steel leaf-form pointer, the silver drop pendants beneath the columns accentuating the trunk finely inlaid with silver stringing in D-ended panels, the visible tube secured with two chased foliate silver brackets, the faceted cistern cover with five silver bolection moulded framed panels with convex top and ogee base with cistern nut
43½in. (110.5cm.) high

Provenance

Sold circa 1725-30 to Thomas Pelham-Holles, later lst Duke of
Newcastle
The Dukes of Newcastle, by descent, latterly at Clumber Park
M F Moore, Esq.

Literature

R W Symonds, Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, 1940, p.166, fig.129
Nicholas Goodison, English Barometers and their Makers 1680-1860, 1969, pp.126-27 and pl.69

Exhibited

Masterpieces of British Art and Craftsmanship, No.35, Ormeley Lodge, Ham, Surrey, 1954, catalogue included
CINOA, Third International Art Tresures Exhibition, V & A, 1962, No.196

Lot Essay

This sumptuous barometer is the only example by Delander so far recorded. Its attention to detail and beautiful proportions are enhanced by the deliberate contrast between the meticulous silver mounts against the ebony mouldings.
Delander made full use of silver mounts in his bracket clocks but it is on this barometer that he seems to have surpassed even his own very high standards

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