细节
DAN. DELANDER, LONDON: AN EXCEPTIONAL GEORGE I EBONY AND SILVER MOUNTED STICK BAROMETER
circa 1725-30
The architectural case of oak veneered with ebony and surmounted by three brass finials applied with contrasting silver foliate decoration, the silver tablet below signed Delander Fecit, framed with bolection moulding, the entablature supported on silver capped, based and reeded Composite columns flanking the silver register plates with fine acanthus engraving, the scales divided 28"-31" with blued steel leaf-form pointer, the silver drop pendants beneath the columns accentuating the trunk finely inlaid with silver stringing in D-ended panels, the visible tube secured with two chased foliate silver brackets, the faceted cistern cover with five silver bolection moulded framed panels with convex top and ogee base with cistern nut
43½in. (110.5cm.) high
来源
Sold circa 1725-30 to Thomas Pelham-Holles, later lst Duke of
Newcastle
The Dukes of Newcastle, by descent, latterly at Clumber Park
M F Moore, Esq.
出版
R W Symonds, Masterpieces of English Furniture and Clocks, 1940, p.166, fig.129
Nicholas Goodison, English Barometers and their Makers 1680-1860, 1969, pp.126-27 and pl.69
展览
Masterpieces of British Art and Craftsmanship, No.35, Ormeley Lodge, Ham, Surrey, 1954, catalogue included
CINOA, Third International Art Tresures Exhibition, V & A, 1962, No.196
