A rare late 18th century Dutch walnut single tube barometer
P Waast en Zoonen
Surmounted by a swan neck pediment centred by a turned wooden finial over a carved gadrooned cornice and freestanding brass-mounted Corinthian columns set into the canted angles, flanking a hinged arched glazed door, on a plinth base with applied carved swags over three dependent carved cone finials. The mercury tube with manual brass recording hand and twin shaped silvered scales, the left marked 28 to 31 inches with ten predictions, the right marked 27 to 30 inches and with additional scale 1944 to 2160; the mercury thermometer tube with shaped tube reading against five different temperature scales, with high temperatures recorded from various cities (including Paris 7th July 1743, Upsal 1740, Groenland 1754), 45cm wide x 12cm deep x 134cm high, (17 1/2in wide x 4 1/2in deep x 52 1/2in high)
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Comparative literature
Similar models by Waast and Son are illustrated in Bert Bolle, Barometers in Beeld, 1983, fig. 154, 157, 158, (described as 'one of the most beautiful known Louis XVI period single tube baking barometers in private ownership.'); 161, 162 and 163.
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