a fabergé silver-mounted marble table aneroid barometer, the first silver artel, st. petersburg, circa 1910

the body constructed from carved and polished deep reddish-brown marble, the aperture covered in polished glass and revealing a white dial with French text, surrounded by ribbon-tied laurel wreaths in chased silver, the sides applied with swags of laurel, each swag pendent from a bow knot, raised on four circular, gadrooned supports

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