WILLIAM HARRIS & CO., LONDON. CIRCA 1815

细节

A Regency mahogany stick barometer
William Harris & Co., London. Circa 1815
The ebony-strung case with swan neck pediment and bone urn finial and with moulded circular cistern cover, brass-capped concealed tube, with hygrometer above glass panel to silvered plate signed W. Harris & Co./50 Holborn/LONDON & at HAMBURG, with sliding vernier scale, the trunk below with glazed Fahrenheit and Réaumur mercury thermometer
43¾ in. (111 cm.) high

来源

Sotheby's London, Good Clocks and Barometers, 3 October 1996, lot 265.

注意事项

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

William Harris is recorded as working at 47 High Holborn between 1799 and 1814, having started his career working in Edinburgh. In 1814 the business became William Harris & Co., becoming William Harris & Son in 1840.
Edwin Banfield (Barometer Makers and Retailers 1660-1900, Baros Books, 1991, p.104) makes a Hamburg connection with Thomas Harris & Son, who at this time were at 30 Hyde Street, Bloomsbury. Presumably there was a family connection.