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A Louis XVI giltwood and gesso barometer, third quarter 18th century
The case carved with a cresting of two billing doves within a stiff leaf frame, their pediment resting on dolphins supported in turn by fluted coolumns modelled with bellflower husks, flanking the white painted wood dial signed Mechin (?) Opticien Rue de la Cathedrale Versailles, with thermometer below flanked by ho-ho birds and leaf carved terminal, mercury tube lacking, therometer tube damaged
40in. (103cm.) high
The case carved with a cresting of two billing doves within a stiff leaf frame, their pediment resting on dolphins supported in turn by fluted coolumns modelled with bellflower husks, flanking the white painted wood dial signed Mechin (?) Opticien Rue de la Cathedrale Versailles, with thermometer below flanked by ho-ho birds and leaf carved terminal, mercury tube lacking, therometer tube damaged
40in. (103cm.) high