£ 14,500.00
Circa 1840
England
H eight 49 inches Width 6 ¾ inches Depth 3 ½ inches
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Lord Vernon’s Sudbury Hall lime wood barometer, by J. Braund after Grinling Gibbons, of typical form within a case richly carved with high relief strapwork comprising bellflowers, foliage and fleshy acanthus scrolls, the finial centred on a roundel showing the four winds represented by cherubs blowing from each corner, with further cherubs reclining on the shoulders, the scallop shell and garland-carved base sliding upwards to reveal the mercury reservoir. English, circa 1840.
Provenance: Supplied to the Lords Vernon for Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire
By descent until sold by the Right Hon. Lord Vernon at Sotheby’s, February 1923.
Literature: Advertised in Country Life, 3rd of February 1923
in a Sotheby’s preview
The Braund Society Journal, Issue 154, September 2020 ‘John Braund’s Barometer’
Footnotes: J. Braund was well known in artistic circles in Victorian London as a designer, retailer of furniture and as an architect. A table either designed or retailed by Braund is dated 1839 and he exhibited at the Great Exhibition in 1851.
Read our blog with further information on Sudbury Hall
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Lord Vernon’s Sudbury Hall lime wood barometer, by J. Braund after Grinling Gibbons
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