Furniture, Clocks, Pocket Watches & Tribal Art - 3rd April 2012

Lot 178

A large Victorian oak Gothic barometer

Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £7500

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Description

A large Victorian oak Gothic barometer, with bronze mounts, the colonnaded tower top with applied frogs and masks to heraldic seated griffins flanking a hung sheep, with a silvered dials inscribed PASTORELLI & RAPKIN, OPTICIANS 46 HATTON GARDEN LONDON, with adjustable verniers with engraved gilt panels of portcullis, rose and fleur de lys above a lancet shape silver thermometer dial with coiled tube, with colonnaded framing repeated to the sides, the base with similar lancet arches and pinnacled arches to a green man mask pendant, 61in (155cm) h.