Maker: Buttieri, Carlo Antonio

Year: 1726

Year Range: -

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Manufacturing Location: Rome, Italy

Signature: Carlo Antonio Buttieri Roma An. 1726

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No stand present.

Collection: Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes

Accession #: LC 64

Sources:

Louwman, P.J.K., and Zuidervaart, H.J., "A Certain Instrument to See Far: Four Centuries of Styling the Telescope Illustrated by a Selection of Treasures from the Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes". Wassenaar, 2009. p.82. #69.

Louwman, P.J.K., and Zuidervaart, H.J., "A Certain Instrument for Seeing Far: Four Centuries of Styling the Telescope Illustrated by a Selection of Treasures from the Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes". Wassenaar, 2013. p.87. #64.

Public Notes:

"The main tube and ferrules are covered with red brown leather, richly decorated with [worn-out] gold tooling. Four drawtubes are covered with marbled paper. Ivory end pieces. Length 34-76 cm, Ø 4.3 cm. Signed on the [broken] objective lens (Ø 2.8 cm, diaphragm Ø 1.8 cm): ‘Carlo Antonio Buttieri Roma An. 1726’.

Carlo Antonio Buttieri worked in Rome around 1700. He is not mentioned by Lualdi (2000) in his overview of Italian instrument makers. However Vecchio (1995) has described a Buttieri-telescope with comparable ivory fittings, dated 1737" (Louwman and Zuidervaart, 2013).

Length (open): 760

Length (closed): 340

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Objective type: singlet

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Materials: ivory, leather, paper, glass, gold tooling

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