Lot Essay
A virtually identical barometer, but lacking the eglomisé plate was sold by Christie's Amsterdam, 25 September 2002, lot 471.
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CIRCA 1790, SIGNED A:PEIA, AMSTERDAM
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A DUTCH NEOCLASSIC MAHOGANY, INLAID, EBONISED AND VERRE EGLOMISE BAROMETER AND THERMOMETER
Circa 1790, signed A:PEIA, Amsterdam
The later urn finial with a broken arch pediment and verre eglomisé panels above an ornately engraved and cut silvered gauge panel behing a chequer-strung door flanked by quarter column angles on a projecting base with a further verre eglomisé panel with later pendant finials, inscribed BAROMETER/THERMOMETER/en/CONTROLEUR/Ant.Peia/fec:Amsterd
52in. (132cm.) high, 12½in. (32cm.) wide
Circa 1790, signed A:PEIA, Amsterdam
The later urn finial with a broken arch pediment and verre eglomisé panels above an ornately engraved and cut silvered gauge panel behing a chequer-strung door flanked by quarter column angles on a projecting base with a further verre eglomisé panel with later pendant finials, inscribed BAROMETER/THERMOMETER/en/CONTROLEUR/Ant.Peia/fec:Amsterd
52in. (132cm.) high, 12½in. (32cm.) wide