JOHN WHITEHURST, DERBY, CIRCA 1770-80
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JOHN WHITEHURST, DERBY, CIRCA 1770-80

A GEORGE III WIND VANE DIAL

已結束2022年5月25日

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GBP 10,710

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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.

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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).