Stock No.

Exhibit No.46

Height

47 inches (1194 mm)

Case

The ‘royal’ pattern mahogany veneered case with a gilt ‘Prince of Wales feather’ finial and rope-twist border mounts. The top section inset with a black and gilt verre églomisé glass panel depicting trailing leaves and scrolls framing the thermometer, with a further matching verre églomisé panel of thistles below the circular dial bezel.

Dial

The large circular gilt-highlighted and white painted dial, framed by aconcave gilded bezel, with two subsidiary indexes and signed across the centre J. Russell, Falkirk INV.T ET FECIT, WATCHMAKER to his R:H the PRINCE REGENT, with finely pierced and counter-balanced blued steel hands. The silvered mercury thermometer register with three scales for Reaumer, Fahrenheit and Royal Society, signed vertically at the bottom right Jno. Russell Falkirk.

Provenance

Anthony Woodburn, 2000, sold for £105,000;
John C Taylor collection, inventory no.4004

Comparative Literature

Goodison, English Barometers 1680-1860: A History of Domestic Barometers and their Makers, 1977, p.233-235, plates 160-162;
Jagger, Royal Clocks, The British Monarchy and its Timekeepers, 1983, p.217, plate 285;
Goodison and Kern, Hotspur, Eighty Years of Antique Dealing, 2004, no.10, p.255-256