Live Auction 21043The Collection of Sir Nicholas Goodison - British Art: Innovation and Craftsmanship
JOHN WHITEHURST, DERBY, CIRCA 1770-80
Lot 99

JOHN WHITEHURST, DERBY, CIRCA 1770-80

A GEORGE III WIND VANE DIAL

Closed25 May 2022

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JOHN WHITEHURST, DERBY, CIRCA 1770-80
A GEORGE III WIND VANE DIAL
The circular case with carved border and glazed silvered dial, steel hands, the recording hand pierced, the dial signed 'Whitehurst Derby'
Mahogany and brass
13 in. (33 cm.) diameter; 1 1⁄2 in. (3.8 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 2 May 1966, lot 62.

Specialist note


Sir Nicholas Goodison noted: There are only two known examples of this type. A hygrometer by Whitehurst with the same carved circular case is in the Gerstenfeld Collection. (E. Lennox-Boyd (Ed.), Masterpieces of English Furniture, The Gerstenfeld Collection, London, 1998, no. 100, p. 242).