A French gilt-bronze-mounted tortoiseshell barometer, after the model by André Charles Boulle mid 19th century

the cresting surmounted by the winged figure of Time flanked by urn shaped finials, the sides with boldly scrolled acanthus leaf, above tasselled drapery lambrequins below a porcelain plaque signed F.L … Paris, the tapering lower section with a stylised scallopshell above a bracket terminating in a berried foliate finial