BY JOHN WHITEHURST, DERBY, CIRCA 1775

細節

A GEORGE III CARVED MAHOGANY WHEEL BAROMETER
BY JOHN WHITEHURST, DERBY, CIRCA 1775
The case with later urn finial on gadrooned base and with guilloche collar, half column trunk flanked at its base by replaced acanthus scroll carvings, with pearled and foliate-carved frame to the silvered 9½ in. diameter dial signed Whitehurst/DERBY
42 in. (107 cm.) high

來源

(Probably) The Benjamin Sonnenberg collection, Sotheby's New York, 5-6 June 1979, lot 1641.
Bought from Norman Adams at the Antique Dealers' Fair, Grosvenor House, 27 July 1983.
Anonymous sale ('50 Years of Collecting: The Decorative Arts of Georgian England'); Christie's, London, 14 May 2003, lot 55.

出版

(Probably) D. Fitzgerald, 'A New Yorker's Unusual Collection', Apollo, March 1967, p. 170, fig. 15.

注意事項

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.

拍品專文

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Nicholas Goodison, English Barometers 1680-1860, Woodbridge, 1997, p. 284, fig. 193.
The Whitehurst family clockmaking business was started in Derby by John Whitehurst I (1713-1788), and the business was carried on by his son John Whitehurst (1761-1834) who is recorded as working at 22 Irongate, Derby (N. Goodison, Barometers, London, rev. ed., 1977, pp. 284-5, pl. 193). It is not clear whether this group of barometers, probably dating from the early to mid-1770s, were made by the father or son. The father moved to London in 1776. This barometer is part of a group, differing in only the smallest detail, including:
-One sold anonymously (Arthur A. Leidesdorf), Sotheby's, London, 27-28 June 1974, lot 158 (the design lacking the pedestal at the bottom of the shaft).
-One from the Judge Irwin Untermyer collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (illustrated in Y. Hackenbroch, The Untermyer Collection - Furniture, New York, 1958, pl. 20).
-One illustrated in P. Macquoid & R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., London, 1954, vol. I, p. 19, fig. 24.
-One from the Henry Hirsch collection illustrated in M. Harris & Sons Catalogue and Index, vol. III, n.d. (1928), p. 477.
-One, more elaborate, sold by Walter P. Chrysler, Jr, Parke-Bernet New York, 29-30 April 1960, lot 220.
-One in the Gerstenfeld Collection (E. Lennox-Boyd,(ed.), Masterpieces of English Furniture - The Gerstenfeld Collection, London, 1998, p. 242, cat. no. 99).