THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN
AN AUSTRIAN GILTWOOD AND MIRRORED STICK BAROMETER, 19th Century
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AN AUSTRIAN GILTWOOD AND MIRRORED STICK BAROMETER, 19th Century
The mercury column surmounted by two children flanking an orb and Mars and Diana holding a child, centered by Mercury under a lambrequined canopy, the cartouche-shaped copper plaque inscribed MAGNUM BAROMETRUM Torricelliamun Approbatum in Academia Vienensi et diversis alys. and with pressure conditions indicated in Latin, English, German and Italian, above foliate C-scroll cartouches and a harlequin with a globe, with a scallop-shell finial, formerly with a finial at the top
60in. (152.5cm.) high
The mercury column surmounted by two children flanking an orb and Mars and Diana holding a child, centered by Mercury under a lambrequined canopy, the cartouche-shaped copper plaque inscribed MAGNUM BAROMETRUM Torricelliamun Approbatum in Academia Vienensi et diversis alys. and with pressure conditions indicated in Latin, English, German and Italian, above foliate C-scroll cartouches and a harlequin with a globe, with a scallop-shell finial, formerly with a finial at the top
60in. (152.5cm.) high