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BY F. BOGGIA, LEIDEN
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A Dutch Louis XVI mahogany cistern barometer
By F. Boggia, Leiden
The triangular broken pediment centring on an urn hung with laurel, the glazed door enclosing the silvered plates inscribed Barometer/en/Thermometer/F. Boggia/Leijden, flanked by columns with gilt-metal mounted composite capitals, above the cistern with laurel swags, incomplete, damaged, thermometer missing, worn
118cm. high
By F. Boggia, Leiden
The triangular broken pediment centring on an urn hung with laurel, the glazed door enclosing the silvered plates inscribed Barometer/en/Thermometer/F. Boggia/Leijden, flanked by columns with gilt-metal mounted composite capitals, above the cistern with laurel swags, incomplete, damaged, thermometer missing, worn
118cm. high