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Maker(s)
Maker:
Orme, Charles
Entities
Categories
Description
Single tube barometer of lacquered and gilt wood with chinoiserie decoration.
Scale: Exposed brass scale, probably should be silvered, inscribed 'Stormy, Much Rain, Rain, Changeable, Fair, Very Fair, Grt. Draut. and extending from 28 to 31 inches, each inch divided into quarters. Also inscribed Made by Cha. Orme of Ashby de la Zouch. A recording index slides along a brass wire adjacent to the tube.
Tube: The tube has Orme's usual square pattern boxwood cistern.
Case: Carcase probably of pine and with an oak backboard. Japanned black with gilt chinoiserie decoration of lattice sections alternating with reserves incorporating human figures and a dog. Semi-cylindrical cistern cover decorated with birds and other motifs.
Notes
History note: Louis C.G. Carke, MA, Litt. D., Leckhampton, Cambridge, before October 1948
Legal notes
Louis C. G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Measurements and weight
Height: 36½ in
Width: 25½ in
Place(s) associated
-
Ashby de la Zouche
⪼ England
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1960)
by
Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
Dating
18th Century, second quarter#
Circa
1730
CE
-
1740
CE
Note
Unlike many of Orme's productions, this example is undated, but is probably an early production, c. 1730-35 in view of the japanned decoration, and the use of the term 'Very Fair' instead of the more usual 'Setd Fair' or 'Set Fair' used on Orme's later work.
School or Style
Chinoiserie
Components of the work
Frame
composed of
wood
Decoration
composed of
gilding
lacquer
Tube
composed of
glass
Techniques used in production
Lacquering
: Lacquered and gilt wood with single tube
Gilding
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: M.29-1961
Primary reference Number: 95986
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 11 August 2016
Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
