"Louis XVI Period Barometer In Golden Wood. To The Bacchus Children"
Barometer from the Louis XVI period, in carved and gilded wood decorated with two young children's faces simulating two little Bacchus. The attributes of the vine, wine and fertility are represented by bunches of grapes, vine leaves and ears of wheat. Mercury system in good working order with floats and counterweights already blocked for transport. Regional work around 1800.