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LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A Dutch mahogany and marquetry cistern barometer
Late 18th Century
Chequerbanded overall, the case of typical form with breakarch pediment and later urn finial to the top, the pewter register plate with thermometer, inscribed BAROMETER/THERMOMETER/en/CONTROLEUR/door/Gebs Reballio/Rotterdam, the cistern inlaid with a conch shell, one pewter vase finial later
127cm. high
Late 18th Century
Chequerbanded overall, the case of typical form with breakarch pediment and later urn finial to the top, the pewter register plate with thermometer, inscribed BAROMETER/THERMOMETER/en/CONTROLEUR/door/Gebs Reballio/Rotterdam, the cistern inlaid with a conch shell, one pewter vase finial later
127cm. high
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