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LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A French parcel-gilt and white-painted barometer
Late 18th Century
The canted rectangular top above an egg-and-dart rim, surmounted by a flaming urn and hung with foliate garlands, above a thermometer and two doves and a circular grey-painted register plate for the barometer, above a vase-shaped apron issuing various flower-heads, restorations and regilded; And a cartel clock in a later, similarly decorated case
Both 109.5cm. high x 30.5cm. wide (2)
Late 18th Century
The canted rectangular top above an egg-and-dart rim, surmounted by a flaming urn and hung with foliate garlands, above a thermometer and two doves and a circular grey-painted register plate for the barometer, above a vase-shaped apron issuing various flower-heads, restorations and regilded; And a cartel clock in a later, similarly decorated case
Both 109.5cm. high x 30.5cm. wide (2)
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