LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BAROMETER
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£500 - £1,000
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Hammer price:
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£750 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BAROMETER with a painted thermometer gauge and dial inscribed "Passement a Versailles", the thermometer gauge inscribed "Paris 17...", the case carved with drapery swags, tassels, flowers, foliage and fluting and surmounted by flowers spilling out of a basket, 125cm high x 36cm wide Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Sir William Ackroyd, Bt. of Buckland Newton Place, Dorset.
