IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 95986 accession number: M.29-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 11 August 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Single tube barometer of lacquered and gilt wood with chinoiserie decoration. title: angle barometer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Louis C.G. Carke, MA, Litt. D., Leckhampton, Cambridge, before October 1948 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Louis C. G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/95986 TECHNIQUES ---------- lacquered and gilt wood with single tube lacquering TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: furniture DATING ------ creation date: 1730 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1730 creation date latest: 1740 culture: 18th Century, second quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Orme, Charles DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: in value: 36½ dimension: Width units: in value: 25½ CITATIONS -------- English Barometers 1680-1860, A History of Domestic Barometers and their Makers and Retailers ---