A FINE FRENCH LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU MOUNTED KINGWOOD MERCURY WHEEL BAROMETER CAPPY, PARIS, CIRCA 1860 The 8 inch circular slightly convex white enamel register calibrated in barometric inches 27 to 29 divided into sixteenths, within concentric weather observations in French to outer track interrupted by signature CAPPY, PARIS to lower margin, with blued steel hand and unusual engraved gilt brass serpentine recording pointer set behind a convex glass within rococo foliate scroll cast bezel, the baluster-outline upright veneered with opposing canted-grain book-matched veneers and inset with an enamelled ECHELLE and CENTIGRADE scale spirit thermometer, also signed CAPPY, PARIS to upper margin and set within fine rococo scroll cast gilt surround, the case bordered with further richly cast rococo scroll mounts incorporating pierced crest and openwork waist. 114cm (45ins) high, 32cm (12.5ins) wide. Provenance: Previously sold at Wilkinsons Auctioneers Limited, Doncaster, 29th February 2004, for £4,500 hammer.
A FINE FRENCH LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU MOUNTED KINGWOOD MERCURY WHEEL BAROMETER CAPPY, PARIS, CIRCA 1860 The 8 inch circular slightly convex white enamel register calibrated in barometric inches 27 to 29 divided into sixteenths, within concentric weather observations in French to outer track interrupted by signature CAPPY, PARIS to lower margin, with blued steel hand and unusual engraved gilt brass serpentine recording pointer set behind a convex glass within rococo foliate scroll cast bezel, the baluster-outline upright veneered with opposing canted-grain book-matched veneers and inset with an enamelled ECHELLE and CENTIGRADE scale spirit thermometer, also signed CAPPY, PARIS to upper margin and set within fine rococo scroll cast gilt surround, the case bordered with further richly cast rococo scroll mounts incorporating pierced crest and openwork waist. 114cm (45ins) high, 32cm (12.5ins) wide. Provenance: Previously sold at Wilkinsons Auctioneers Limited, Doncaster, 29th February 2004, for £4,500 hammer.
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