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Wall clock-barometer (baromètre et thermomètre en cartel)

Clockmaker: Lange de Bourbon French
ca. 1770
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 528

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Wall clock-barometer (baromètre et thermomètre en cartel)
  • Maker: Clockmaker: Lange de Bourbon (French, active 1750–75)
  • Enameler: Antoine-Nicolas Martinière (French, 1706–1784)
  • Date: ca. 1770
  • Culture: French, Paris
  • Medium: Gilt-bronze, tortoiseshell, steel, oak
  • Dimensions: Overall: 46 1/4 × 15 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (117.5 × 39.4 × 11.4 cm)
  • Classification: Horology
  • Credit Line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958
  • Object Number: 58.75.61
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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