拍品 31
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A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID RED TORTOISESHELL BAROMETER AND MATCHING THERMOMETER, each with pierced cresting surmounted by opposing winged cherubs flanking a globe, one cherub holding compasses and emblematic of astronomy, the rectangular body with inset engraved dial and central tube within a tortoiseshell ground, the domed outer moulding cast with bell-husks and C-scrolls upon a pounced ground above an acanthus-cast berried boss, restorations, the tubes replaced, variously inscribed, one with pencil inscription Termometer 4058, the other Barometer 4057

细节
A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID RED TORTOISESHELL BAROMETER AND MATCHING THERMOMETER, each with pierced cresting surmounted by opposing winged cherubs flanking a globe, one cherub holding compasses and emblematic of astronomy, the rectangular body with inset engraved dial and central tube within a tortoiseshell ground, the domed outer moulding cast with bell-husks and C-scrolls upon a pounced ground above an acanthus-cast berried boss, restorations, the tubes replaced, variously inscribed, one with pencil inscription Termometer 4058, the other Barometer 4057
47in. (119.5cm.) high
来源
Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 7 December 1978, lot 23

拍品专文

The marchand-mercier Claude-François Julliot carried an almost identical barometer and themometer in the inventory of his stock, taken following the death of his wife on 5 November 1777:-
663 - un baromètre et un thermomètre fond d'écaille rouge à bande de cuirre lisse sur Lacquelle les degrés sont tracés; garnis d'un cadre à groupe d'enfants du haut et à culot à rinceau par bas...1001.

A related barometer was sold from the collection of M. et Mme. Henri Rabeau, Sotheby's Monaco, 17-18 June 1989, lot 846