AN AUSTRIAN GILTWOOD AND MIRRORED STICK BAROMETER, 19th Century The mercury column surmounted by two children flanking an orb and Mars and Diana holding a child, centered by Mercury under a lambrequined canopy, the cartouche-shaped copper plaque inscribed MAGNUM BAROMETRUM Torricelliamun Approbatum in Academia Vienensi et diversis alys. and with pressure conditions indicated in Latin, English, German and Italian, above foliate C-scroll cartouches and a harlequin with a globe, with a scallop-shell finial, formerly with a finial at the top 60in. (152.5cm.) high
AN AUSTRIAN GILTWOOD AND MIRRORED STICK BAROMETER, 19th Century The mercury column surmounted by two children flanking an orb and Mars and Diana holding a child, centered by Mercury under a lambrequined canopy, the cartouche-shaped copper plaque inscribed MAGNUM BAROMETRUM Torricelliamun Approbatum in Academia Vienensi et diversis alys. and with pressure conditions indicated in Latin, English, German and Italian, above foliate C-scroll cartouches and a harlequin with a globe, with a scallop-shell finial, formerly with a finial at the top 60in. (152.5cm.) high
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