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拍品專文
Daniel Quare (b. 1649 - d. 1724) invented and patented his portable barometer in 1695. These pillar barometers involved the narrowing of the bore and the increase in length of the glass tube in order to prevent spillages. A leather bag or cover was also placed over the cistern which according to the Patent Office allowed travel 'without spiling one drop of the quicksilver or letting any air into the tube'. Quare made at least three barometers for William III and his barometers can still be seen in the Royal Collection and in museums. The demand for barometers was steady across the continent in the late 17th/early 18th Century and there are known examples of Quare's barometers with French and German indications, proving his strong European presence.
Similar examples sold at auction include: a fine ivory, double-sided barometer (No. 95), Christie's, London, The Samuel Messer Collection of English Furniture, Clocks, and Barometers, 5 December 1991, Lot 13 (£39,600); an ebonised and parcel-gilt pillar barometer, Christie's, London, 27 May 2010, lot 18 (£20,000); an ebonised, parcel-gilt and ivory-mounted siphon barometer (No. 60) Christie's, London, The Roger Warner Collection, 20 January 2009, lot 355 (£18,750); a Queen Anne ebonised and ivory-mounted syphon barometer (No. 59), Christie's, London, 11 December 2002, Lot 78 (£21,510); a walnut double-sided barometer (No. 38), Sotheby's, London, The Ronald A. Lee Collection, 28 November 2001, lot 109 (£31,550)
A similar walnut pillar barometer (No. 56) with E. T. Biggs & Sons Ltd, Maidenhead, exhibited at the Grosvenor House Antique Dealers' Fair and Exhibition, 1960
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Edwin Banfield Barometers: Stick or Cistern Tube, 1985, pp. 19-25
Nicholas Goodison English Barometers 1680-1860, 1977, pp. 210-220
Similar examples sold at auction include: a fine ivory, double-sided barometer (No. 95), Christie's, London, The Samuel Messer Collection of English Furniture, Clocks, and Barometers, 5 December 1991, Lot 13 (£39,600); an ebonised and parcel-gilt pillar barometer, Christie's, London, 27 May 2010, lot 18 (£20,000); an ebonised, parcel-gilt and ivory-mounted siphon barometer (No. 60) Christie's, London, The Roger Warner Collection, 20 January 2009, lot 355 (£18,750); a Queen Anne ebonised and ivory-mounted syphon barometer (No. 59), Christie's, London, 11 December 2002, Lot 78 (£21,510); a walnut double-sided barometer (No. 38), Sotheby's, London, The Ronald A. Lee Collection, 28 November 2001, lot 109 (£31,550)
A similar walnut pillar barometer (No. 56) with E. T. Biggs & Sons Ltd, Maidenhead, exhibited at the Grosvenor House Antique Dealers' Fair and Exhibition, 1960
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Edwin Banfield Barometers: Stick or Cistern Tube, 1985, pp. 19-25
Nicholas Goodison English Barometers 1680-1860, 1977, pp. 210-220