A FRENCH ORMOLU AND HORN-INLAID BAROMETER, the circular white painted convex dial with blued steel hand and moulded glazed bezel, surmounted by two winged cherubs leaning on a cushion, the tapering trunk flanked by winged cherub caryatids and centred by a glazed alcohol thermometer and scale with acanthus-cast terminal and pineapple finial (the mercury tube barometer not working, the cherub surmount mercury stained), late 19th Century

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A FRENCH ORMOLU AND HORN-INLAID BAROMETER, the circular white painted convex dial with blued steel hand and moulded glazed bezel, surmounted by two winged cherubs leaning on a cushion, the tapering trunk flanked by winged cherub caryatids and centred by a glazed alcohol thermometer and scale with acanthus-cast terminal and pineapple finial (the mercury tube barometer not working, the cherub surmount mercury stained), late 19th Century
9in. (23cm.) wide; 44in. (112cm.) high; 3¼in. (8.2cm.) deep

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