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拍品专文
The French inscription on this barometer may also be seen on a particularly fine ivory, double-sided example, Quare No. 90, which sold, The Samuel Messer Collection of English Furniture, Clocks and Barometers, Christie's London, 5 December 1991, lot 13. That barometer was signed twice; on one side 'Invented/and made by/D. Quare/London' and on the other, 'Faits portatifs/par/D. Quare/Londres'. Other examples of Quare barometers in this style include: an ebonised, parcel-gilt and ivory-mounted barometer (No. 60) sold, The Roger Warner Collection, Christie's South Kensington, 20 January 2009, lot 355 (£18,750 including buyer's premium); an ebonised and ivory-mounted barometer (No. 59), sold anonymously, Christie's London 11 December 2002, lot 78 (£21,510 including buyers premium); a walnut double-sided (No. 38) sold, The Ronald Lee Collection, Sotheby's London, 28 November 2001, lot 109 (£31,550 including buyer's premium).
Unlike the above barometers, this example is not numbered. Of Quare's numbering system Nicholas Goodison writes: 'It seems to have been a spasmodic habit and no logical pattern can be detected [for his] motive for numbering some products but not others of identical design' (English Barometers 1680-1860, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 215). Quare's barometers varied in quality and materials also. Plain, as opposed to cast, feet may be seen on an example in the Victoria & Albert museum, London (Goodison, p. 212).
In 1695 Quare was granted a 14 year patent for the 'sole use and benefit of a Portable Weather Glass or Barometer, by him invented'. The application was opposed by the Clockmakers' Company; with some justification, as a similar design had been published in Holland in 1688 and, according to Robert Hooke, Thomas Tompion had made an example a year earlier. In 1696 when William Derham conducted barometric experiments at the Monument he used two of Quare's 'best portable barometers'.
Daniel Quare (1649-1724) rose from obscure and apparently humble Quaker origins to become one of the most illustrious and successful clockmakers of England's golden age of horology. Although he was never clock or watch maker to the Crown, Quare nonethless enjoyed Royal patronage. George I offered him the post of King's watchmaker for £300 per year but Quare's Quaker faith made him unable to swear the necessary Oath of Allegiance. Even so the King told Quare that he could visit any time and the Yeoman of the Guard at the Back Stairs let him 'frequently go up without calling anybody for leave as otherwise is usual, for Persons of Quality'. Perhaps the clearest evidence of Quare's success and his cosmopolitan clients is given by the lists of those attending his children's weddings. Among the guests at his daughter Ann's nuptials in 1705 were the Envoys of Venice, Hanover, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia and Florence. In 1715, the Prince and Princess of Wales were due to attend Elisabeth Quare's wedding but could not do so because of an Act of Parliament forbidding the Royal family from attending houses of religious dissent. Nonetheless, the Princess attended the wedding dinner along with 300 other guests.
Unlike the above barometers, this example is not numbered. Of Quare's numbering system Nicholas Goodison writes: 'It seems to have been a spasmodic habit and no logical pattern can be detected [for his] motive for numbering some products but not others of identical design' (English Barometers 1680-1860, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 215). Quare's barometers varied in quality and materials also. Plain, as opposed to cast, feet may be seen on an example in the Victoria & Albert museum, London (Goodison, p. 212).
In 1695 Quare was granted a 14 year patent for the 'sole use and benefit of a Portable Weather Glass or Barometer, by him invented'. The application was opposed by the Clockmakers' Company; with some justification, as a similar design had been published in Holland in 1688 and, according to Robert Hooke, Thomas Tompion had made an example a year earlier. In 1696 when William Derham conducted barometric experiments at the Monument he used two of Quare's 'best portable barometers'.
Daniel Quare (1649-1724) rose from obscure and apparently humble Quaker origins to become one of the most illustrious and successful clockmakers of England's golden age of horology. Although he was never clock or watch maker to the Crown, Quare nonethless enjoyed Royal patronage. George I offered him the post of King's watchmaker for £300 per year but Quare's Quaker faith made him unable to swear the necessary Oath of Allegiance. Even so the King told Quare that he could visit any time and the Yeoman of the Guard at the Back Stairs let him 'frequently go up without calling anybody for leave as otherwise is usual, for Persons of Quality'. Perhaps the clearest evidence of Quare's success and his cosmopolitan clients is given by the lists of those attending his children's weddings. Among the guests at his daughter Ann's nuptials in 1705 were the Envoys of Venice, Hanover, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia and Florence. In 1715, the Prince and Princess of Wales were due to attend Elisabeth Quare's wedding but could not do so because of an Act of Parliament forbidding the Royal family from attending houses of religious dissent. Nonetheless, the Princess attended the wedding dinner along with 300 other guests.