A WILLIAM AND MARY TORTOISE AND GILT JAPANNED STICK BAROMETER

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A WILLIAM AND MARY TORTOISE AND GILT JAPANNED STICK BAROMETER
LATE 17TH CENTURY

In the manner of Daniel Quare, the silvered indicator with engraved caddy lid and finials above an engraved block, the tapering stem with spiral-gadrooned lower section and plinth, on four gilt-metal feet cast as female masks, decorated with Chinese figures and flowering branches, stem warped 39in. (99cm.) high

來源

Percival D. Griffiths, Esq., sold Christie's London, 10 May 1939, lot 115

出版

P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 1924, vol.I, p.14, fig.12
R.W. Symonds, English Furniture from Charles II to George II, 1929, p.302, fig.254
R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev.edn., 1954, vol.I, p.30, fig.12
R. Edwards, ed., The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, 1964, p.26. fig.7

拍品專文

Percival D. Griffiths was one of the foremost English collectors at the earlier part of this century. The focus of his collection was early walnut and mid-Georgian carved mahogany examples. Advised by the noted furniture connoisseur and dealer R.W. Symonds. Many pieces from his collection including this barometer, are illustrated in books by Symonds such as English Furniture from Charles II to George II (1929). Christie's sold much of the Percival Griffiths collection following his death in 1939.

The finely engraved indicator, spiral-gadrooned lower section to the stem and figural-cast feet are all characteristics found on examples by the pre-eminant clock and barometer-maker, Daniel Quare (d.1724) (see N.Goodison, English Barometers 1680-1860, 1977, pp.206-221).