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Thermometers and barometers offered elegant evidence of the owner's intellectual interests. This thermometer is paired with a matching barometer (Museum no. 1097-1882) and both are finely veneered in tulipwood and kingwood to take their place beside the finest furniture of a study or of the small personal rooms known as cabinets in France. \r\n\r\nThe pair of instruments was acquired by John Jones, a British military tailor, in the 19th century. He was one of the best-known collectors of French 18th-century decorative arts and in 1882 he bequeathed his collection to the South Kensington Museum, the forerunner of the V&A.","physicalDescription":"The thermometer is mounted on a tall, narrow back panel, veneered in tulipwood and kingwood, with fillets of holly and purpleheart under the glass tube.  The edges of the panel are framed with gilt-bronze mouldings.  The top is a shallow arch and the gilt-bronze mounts show small foliage mounts at the corners and in the centre of the top and the bottom.  In the middle of the panel, the tube is flanked with white enamel plaques, painted in black with the scales and the different types of weather, and with the maker's name.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Bourbon, Lange de","id":"A15033"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"wood","id":"AAT11914"},{"text":"tulipwood","id":"AAT12469"},{"text":"kingwood","id":"x35086"},{"text":"holly","id":"AAT12156"},{"text":"purpleheart","id":"AAT12419"},{"text":"gilt bronze","id":"x35084"},{"text":"enamel","id":"AAT14910"},{"text":"glass","id":"AAT10797"}],"techniques":[{"text":"veneered","id":"AAT53878"},{"text":"cast","id":"x32615"},{"text":"chased","id":"AAT54016"},{"text":"gilded","id":"AAT53789"},{"text":"glass-blowing","id":"AAT53932"},{"text":"enamelled","id":"x30139"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Veneered in tulipwood, kingwood, holly and purpleheart, on a carcase of unidentified wood.  The tube of thermometer in glass, flanked by white enamel plaques marked in black enamel.","categories":[{"text":"Furniture","id":"THES48948"},{"text":"Science","id":"THES48898"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2006AK6721","2006AK6717","2019LX7148"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"SM004","id":"THES301658"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Thermometer","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Paris","id":"x29068"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1750-60","earliest":"1745-01-01","latest":"1760-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by John Jones","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"95","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"17","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from Carolyn Sargentson's cataloguing notes","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"CHAUD/POULE\r\nCHAUD/1752[last digit upside-down]\r\n25/25\r\n20/20\r\n15/15\r\nTEM/PE[grave accent]RE\r\n5/5\r\nGLA\r\n5/5\r\nFROID/1740\r\nFROID/1712\r\nFROID/1709\r\nLANGE DE/BOURBON","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"These inscriptions run across the two vertical white enamel plaques on either side of the glass tube and are all in black enamel.  The split is indicated by the forward slash."}],"objectHistory":"Acquired by John Jones before 1882","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"A thermometer mounted on a tall, narrow panel veneered in tulipwood and kingwood, the edges mounted with gilt-bronze, the face set with white enamel plaques inscribed in black, the inscriptions including the maker's name.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"BAROMETER AND THERMOMETER\nFRENCH (Paris); 1755-70\nBoth inscribed 'Lange de Bourbon'\nVeneered with kingwood and tulipwood; gilt-bronze mounts; enamel plaques\nLittle is known of Lange de Bourbon, whose name is found on several barometers of this period, and who is recorded as 'Faiseur De Barometre du Roy' (Maker of Barometers to the King) around 1770. He may have been the François-Denis Lange. apprentice barometer-maker recorded in Paris, 1759.\nUnlike their English counterparts, Parisian scientific-instrument-makers usually ran very small establishments. Specialist enamellers and metal-workers would have provided the plaques and gilt-bronze mounts for these instruments. The style of veneered cases reflects upper-class Parisian taste for decorative marquetry furniture around 1750.\nJones Bequest\n1096-1882 (barometer), 1097-1882 (thermometer)","date":{"text":"ca. 1994","earliest":"1989-01-01","latest":"1998-12-31"}},{"text":"[Label text by Peter Thornton]\r\nBarometer and Thermometer\r\nFrench (Paris); mid-18th century\r\nBoth inscribed \"Lange de Bourbon\"\r\nVeneered with kingwood and other woods. Gilt bronze mounts. 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