Wall Barometer Bourdon & Richard Carved Oak. C.1855

Carved oak tall wall barometer in the Louis XV style. It is a rare Eugène Bourdon flat metal tube barometer marketed, around 1855 by A. Chevallier, 1 rue de la Bourse, in Paris. It bears the mark of E. Bourdon and Richard's patent and honorable mentions at the Exposition de la Seconde République of 1849 and at the London Exhibition of 1851. The brass frame is engraved with the word Compensé, bears a F-R (For Félix Richard) monogram, the serial number 6153 and Richard à Paris. Rounded glass, paper dial glued onto cardboard. The housing is a carved block of wood in one piece in high relief. Beautiful and luxurious monoxyle sculpture in the style L XV. At the bottom is a glass tube thermometer in a bishop's crook shape. The barometer and the thermometer work. The wood is in perfect condition. There is a location on the back of the barometer for a stylus or a key. The stylus is lost..