Barometer - Wood

Louis XVI-style carved and gilded wood barometer-thermometer The dial features a windsrose painted in grisaille and the meteorological scale in French with the old spelling “TEMS”: Tempête / Grande pluie / Pluie ou vent / Variable / Beau temps / Beau fixe / Très sec, graduated from 27 to 29 inches. Note “Selon Torricelli.” Datable from the late 18th to the early 19th century. Provenance / history: on the back, two labels from Paris-region suppliers — J. Mallet, optician, 4 passage Saint-Pierre, Versailles and L. Couturier, street de la Paroisse, adjudicator of the Hôtel de Ville of Versailles — as well as a handwritten inscription “Mallet 19/1/22” corresponding to a revision in January 1922. An object that has lived in the Versailles area and whose maintenance is documented. Dimensions: height 87 cm × width 51 cm. Condition: antique item in its original state, to be restored. Wear and losses to the gilding. Old wood-boring wormholes on the pediment and frame. Dial glass cracked. The mechanism is sold as-is, functionality not guaranteed. See detailed photos, which are an integral part of the description. Pickup only — NON-shippable item. This barometer contains mercury (original tube): transport by carrier is forbidden. Local pickup only in Paris. Please do not bid if you cannot come to collect the item or arrange local pickup yourself.

Estimate:£374.87

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