BOTTIN MONDAIN enamelled plate forming barometer... Lot 44

BOTTIN MONDAIN enamelled plate forming barometer and thermometer. Very beautiful pink decoration on almond background, representing the Feuillets de la Renommée, after the work of Aimé Octobre (1868-1943). Cooperative enamelling, 34 bd de Clichy. Three fixing holes. Small splinters in the margin, and at the upper hole, restorations, barometer and tube added. Ht.: 55.50 cm Note: at the crossroads of rue de l'Université and rue Sébastien Bottin you can admire the work of the sculptor Aimé Octobre, author of the bas-relief surrounding the clock in the Didot-Bottin building. The allegory that brings together, the caduceus, La Renommée and the numerous cascading leaves symbolizes the Almanach du Commerce by Sébastien Bottin, a work that contained, among other things, the addresses of Parisian businesses. The Bottin mondain was created in 1903.