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拍品專文
The present barometer is one of three known of this type by George Adams Sr. A second, with silvered brass 'General State of the Weather' scale, sold from the Samuel Messer Collection, Christie's, London, 5 December 1991, lot 14 (£32,000) (illustrated and described, Goodison op. cit. pp. 124-5); the third, with silvered brass thermometer to the upper trunk, sold Christie's, London, 8 July 1993, now in the Gerstenfeld Collection. Another, of the same model but with plain mahogany trunk and signed 'Watkins, London', exhibited by Peter Lipitch, Grosvenor House Fair, London, 1995.
The Fleet Street scientific instrument maker George Adams Sr. (1709-1772) was a prominent member of the Grocers' Company, serving twice as its warden, in 1758 and 1769. He was appointed Mathematical Instrument Maker to George III in 1760. The business was continued by George Jr. until his death in 1795 and then by George Sr.'s youngest son Dudley until bankruptcy in 1817.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
G. Adams, A Treatise describing the construction and explaining the use of new celestial and terrestrial Globes, London, 1769.
N. Goodison, English Barometers 1680-1860, Woodbridge, 1977, pp. 122-5.
J. R. Millburn, 'Horology and the Adams Family', Antiquarian Horology, Vol. XIII, No. 4, June 1982, pp. 368-376.
G. Clifton, Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851, London, 1995, p. 2.
E. Clive (ed.) Masterpieces of English Furniture, The Gerstenfeld Collection, London, 1998, p. 243
J. R. Millburn, Adams of Fleet Street, Makers to King George III, London, 2000.
The Fleet Street scientific instrument maker George Adams Sr. (1709-1772) was a prominent member of the Grocers' Company, serving twice as its warden, in 1758 and 1769. He was appointed Mathematical Instrument Maker to George III in 1760. The business was continued by George Jr. until his death in 1795 and then by George Sr.'s youngest son Dudley until bankruptcy in 1817.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
G. Adams, A Treatise describing the construction and explaining the use of new celestial and terrestrial Globes, London, 1769.
N. Goodison, English Barometers 1680-1860, Woodbridge, 1977, pp. 122-5.
J. R. Millburn, 'Horology and the Adams Family', Antiquarian Horology, Vol. XIII, No. 4, June 1982, pp. 368-376.
G. Clifton, Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851, London, 1995, p. 2.
E. Clive (ed.) Masterpieces of English Furniture, The Gerstenfeld Collection, London, 1998, p. 243
J. R. Millburn, Adams of Fleet Street, Makers to King George III, London, 2000.