IDENTIFIERS
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id:	95986
accession number:	M.29-1961

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 11 August 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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type: history note
value: Louis C.G. Carke, MA, Litt. D., Leckhampton, Cambridge, before October 1948


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Louis C. G. Clarke Bequest, 1960

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/95986





TECHNIQUES
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lacquered and gilt wood with single tube
lacquering
TECHNIQUES
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gilding

CATEGORIES
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category: furniture

DATING
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creation date:	1730 - 1740
creation date earliest:	1730
creation date latest:	1740
culture:	18th Century, second quarter#

CREATORS
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maker: Orme, Charles

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: in
value: 36½

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 25½



CITATIONS
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English Barometers 1680-1860, A History of Domestic Barometers and their Makers and Retailers
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