Object Description
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.
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.