SIGNED FRENCH/ROYAL EXCHANGE/LONDON, CIRCA 1825

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A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD BAROMETER
SIGNED FRENCH/ROYAL EXCHANGE/LONDON, CIRCA 1825
Of column form, the composite capital above a fluted shaft with glazed aperture with barometer and thermometer tubes against a silvered dial, raised on a stepped plinth base, previously with pulley marker system, loss of mercury
37½in. (95cm.) high

Provenance

with Arthur S. Vernay, Inc., New York.

Lot Essay

Santiago James Moore French became a member of the Company of Clockmakers in 1810 and had premises at 14-15 Sweetings Alley, Royal Exchange, London between 1822-39. In 1840 he later moved to 80 Cornhill, from where he advertised in Spanish and is known to have sold clocks in New York.

A mahogany stick barometer inset into a Corinthian column signed by French is recorded in N. Goodison, English Barometers, 1680-1860, New York, 1968, p. 294.

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