Walter Gough - London
Very fine and unusual
late 18th Century mahogany Wheel Barometer.
The elegant front-to-back ‘swan-neck’
pediment, with ivory finial and ebony and boxwood
frieze, over case of rich ‘Cuban’
mahogany, strung in boxwood and ebony, inlaid
with delicate conch-shell paterae, and inset
with well engraved silvered brass adjustable
hygrometer, detachable mercury thermometer,
10-inch main barometer dial with cast brass
bezel, and unusual signature plate.
c1790
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