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GLOBES - A pair of decorative globes on alabaster and marble column stands.

 1553628682,
s.l. s.n. 19th cent.. The 4.25 inch. (10 cm.) spheres applied with twelve printed gores and polar calottes pivoted via the poles within brass half-meridian rings, each mounted on top of alabaster columns with molded capitals, notable entasis to the shafts and Tuscan-style bases, the plinths with gilt fluted black marble cavetto top moldings and roundel-centered skirts incorporating shaped aprons. Each 70cm (27.5 inch.) high, 12.5cm (5 inch.) wide, 11cm (4.5 inch.) deep. The terrestrial and the celestial globe are a reduction, printed after the 1541 original by the early Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator (1512-94) for Nicholas Perrenot (possibly of de Granville, Prime Minister to Emperor Charles V)..
EUR 12500.00 Boeknummer 12578

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Antiquariaat de Roo (NVvA)
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