Donnington Priory Salerooms

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A Regency mahogany bowfronted
cistern tube stick barometer
Barrauds, London, early 19th
century
With cavetto moulded caddy upstand
above glazed rectangular silvered
vernier register, annotated and
calibrated in inches, with mercury
Fahrenheit thermometer and signed
Barrauds, LONDON to upper right
corner, the trunk with ivory vernier
adjustment disc and ebony line inset
edges above ebonised urn-shaped
cistern cover to the rectangular base
with ebony line inlaid canted angles and
cavetto moulded underside, 99cm high.
Paul Philip Barraud is recorded in Baillie
G.H Watchmakers & Clockmakers of
the World as working 1796-1820, he, in
partnership with W. Howells and
G. Jamison, was charged with making
Mudge’s marine timekeepers. The firm
was continued by his sons becoming
Barraud and Lund in 1839.
£2,500-3,500
19
A George III parquetry strung
mahogany bulb cistern tube stick
barometer
Keate, circa 1810
With broken pediment above shaped
engraved brass scale with vernier,
alcohol tube Fahrenheit thermometer
and signed KEATE, FECIT to upper
margin, above caddy edge-moulded
trunk with exposed tube flanked by
angled-grain veneers and parquetry
strung borders, with domed cistern
cover to the rounded base,
97cm high
£200-250
10
20
A rare Queen Anne walnut
cistern tube stick barometer with
Royal Society scale thermometer
In the manner of John Patrick,
London,
Unsigned, circa 1710 and later
The ogee caddy top pediment with
three turned brass finials above
cavetto moulded break-arch cornice
and arched herringbone border and
foliate scroll engraved silvered scales
with brass setting pointer and
annotated for summer and winter
conditions and inscribed Fair if Rise
and Foul if Fall, flanked by pilasters
with brass capitals and bases above
cavetto moulded throat moulding, the
trunk applied with alcohol
thermometer with (replaced) silvered
scale calibrated from 5 at the top
down to 95 and with annotations
from Extream Cold to Extream Hott
flanked by vertical cross-grain cavetto
mouldings to sides and with half
dome above waisted cylinder turned
cistern cover also enclosing
thermometer bulb and with gilt brass
pendant finial to base (some
restoration, thermometer scale
replaced), 105cm high.
A closely related example is illustrated
and described in Claxton Stevens,
Christopher and Wittington, Stewart
18th CENTURY ENGLISH
FURNITURE, THE NORMAN ADAMS
COLLECTION, page 463. The Royal
Society scale thermometer was
devised by Robert Hooke in 1664
and was calibrated to every degree
representing an increase of 1/500 in
volume of the thermometer liquid.
The scale used the freezing point of
water as the fixed point and was
scaled from high to low with the
increase of temperature. As the rate
of expansion of the alcohol varied
between instruments, each scale had
to be individually made
for the instrument. The current Lot
has a replacement silvered scale as
the original paper scale had probably
become to worn and discoloured to
read. Hooke’s original thermometer
was adopted and became known as
the standard of Gresham College and
used by the Royal Society until 1709.
£2,500-3,500
21
A William and Mary style
olivewood cistern tube stick
barometer in the manner of
John Patrick
Unsigned, circa 1695 and later
The superstructure with arched
pediment, brass ball finials and
swollen frieze above fretwork upright
flanked by ebonised twist turned
columns, the later silvered
herringbone border and foliate
engraved two-part break-arch scale
with brass setting pointer above
replaced exposed bulb-cistern tube
flanked by cross-grain veneers and
ebonised caddy moulded edge
above fretwork flared side panels and
later half-round ring-turned cistern
cover with ogee moulded underside,
(restorations and replacements)
120cm high.
The decorative ‘hood’ superstructure
which incorporates spiral twist
columns emulates the design of
longcase clock from the end of the
17th century and bears similarities to
examples depicted in John Patrick’s
advertisement of circa 1710
reproduced in Goodison, Nicholas
English BAROMETERS 1680-1860
page 48. Although this configuration
appeared to be popular well into the
first two decades of the 18th century,
Edwin Banfield suggests
(BAROMETERS Stick or Cistern Tube
page 18) that the use of fretwork
in the case indicates a date prior
to 1700.
£1,500-2,500
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