A GEORGE III WIND VANE DIAL

Details

JOHN WHITEHURST, DERBY, CIRCA 1770-80
A GEORGE III WIND VANE DIAL
The circular case with carved border and glazed silvered dial, steel hands, the recording hand pierced, the dial signed 'Whitehurst Derby'
Mahogany and brass
13 in. (33 cm.) diameter; 1 1⁄2 in. (3.8 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 2 May 1966, lot 62.

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Lot Essay

Sir Nicholas Goodison noted: There are only two known examples of this type. A hygrometer by Whitehurst with the same carved circular case is in the Gerstenfeld Collection. (E. Lennox-Boyd (Ed.), Masterpieces of English Furniture, The Gerstenfeld Collection, London, 1998, no. 100, p. 242).

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