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Mercury thermometer
    • Setting:
      Room XV
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Italian
    • Date:
      second half 18th cent.
    • Materials:
      wood, glass, brass
    • Dimensions:
      height 380 mm, width 50 mm
    • Inventory:
      1792
    • Mercury thermometer (Inv. 1792)

Mercury thermometer (the mercury is missing) mounted on a silvered brass plate and housed in a wooden case with glass windows. The instrument has a concave bulb and a Réaumur scale engraved on the brass plate.