BY JOHANNES SAN ST. PIETRO, UTRECHT, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A Dutch green painted and parcel-gilt carved wood wheel barometer
BY JOHANNES SAN ST. PIETRO, UTRECHT, LATE 18TH CENTURY
With later engraved glass scale to the mercury thermometer, painted dial with French inscriptions and signed Barometre/Par Santpietro à UTRECHT
113 cm. high

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Lot Essay

Johannes San St. Pietro, is recorded to have had his workshop at Lange Viesteeg in Utrecht, probably from 1782 until 1792 when he sold his workshop to C.A. Poletta. See, B. Bolle, Barometers, Lochem, 1978, p. 144.

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