"Restoration Period Gilded Wood Barometer"
Barometer Thermometer Restoration period Mercury barometer-thermometer in molded and carved gilded wood from the Restoration period according to TORRICELLI. Hexagonal in shape, the frame is decorated with spandrels decorated with palmettes, fleurons and foliage. When damped, the thermometer is set in a lyre decorated with laurel branches and a rosette. It has its tubes and its mercury, not broken, functional, signed A Versailles. After Torricelli (1608 - 1647). Height 91 cm