"Louis XVI Period Barometer In Golden Wood, After Jc Delafosse"
Barometer from the Louis XVI period, in carved wood and gilded with gold leaf, after the model of Jean - Charles Delafosse, used for gilt bronze cartels. Model said to the Nemean lion. Top decorated with an antique vase resting on an entablature with a frieze of ovals. Dial flanked by fluted pilasters decorated with rams' heads. Pine cone base surmounted by a lion's muzzle and its remains. Tube with its mercury and its pulley. Lack of weight and counterweight 
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