George Adams
A mahogany wheel barometer
George Adams
A mahogany wheel barometer
Date 1765
Epoque George III
Origine English
Medium Mahogany
Dimension 105.5 x 29 x 12 cm (41¹/₂ x 11³/₈ x 4³/₄ inches)
Date: 1765
Epoque: George III
Origine: English
Medium: Mahogany
Dimension: 105.5 x 29 x 12 cm (41¹/₂ x 11³/₈ x 4³/₄ inches)
Provenance: Miss G. M. Phillips, Pennsylvania, USA, until 1971.
Ronald Lee Ltd., London, England.
Private collection, England.
Literature: George Adams, A Treatise describing the construction and explaining the use of new celestial and terrestrial Globes, London, 1769.
Nicholas Goodison, English Barometers 1680-1860, 1969, pp. 122-5.
J. R. Millburn, ‘Horology and the Adams Family’, Antiquarian Horology, vol. XIII, no. 4, June 1982, pp. 368-76.
Christie’s, London, ‘The Samuel Messer Collection of English Furniture, Clocks and Barometers’, sale catalogue, 5 December 1991, lot 14.
Gloria Clifton, Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550–1851, 1995, p. 2.
Edward Lennox-Boyd (ed.), Masterpieces of English Furniture: The Gerstenfeld Collection, 1998, p. 243.
J. R. Millburn, Adams of Fleet Street, Makers to King George III, 2000.
Illustrated:
Edwin Banfield, Barometers, Wheel or Banjo, 1985, p. 21, fig. 19.
Ronald Phillips Ltd
18th Century and Early 19th Century English Furniture, Objets d’Art, Glass, Clocks and Barometers
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