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LEBGUE & Cie, Paris
A late 19th-Century clock globe comprising two bronzed spelter dancing maidens in diaphanous robes, one holding a pair of dividers, a skipping cherub at their feet presenting a banner depicting Zodiacal symbols, atop a stylised rocky landscape, the gilt brass mounting ring applied with a brass plaque for LE GLOBE TERRESTRE Par Lavergne, raised on [?]rosso lanquedoc plinth base with gilt-brass foliate decorations, including four lion paw feet, the clock mounted in the base with in-going barrel movement with strike on bell, off-white enamel Arabic dial decorated with a coloured garland and labelled MOREAU and BLAYE; the maidens holding aloft a scroll branch supporting a 6-inch (5.2cm.) diameter terrestrial globe made up of twelve coloured printed paper gores and two polar calottes, the cartouche in the southern Indian Ocean SPHRE TERRESTRE Dress d'aprs les documents officiels et les dcouvertes les plus rcentes par R. BARBOT Gographe - 4 MDAILLES D'OR, 4 MDAILLES D'ARGENT, J. LEBGUE & Cie DITEURS Fournisseurs du Ministre de l'Instruction Publique, 30, rue de Lille, 30 Paris, the prime meridian graduated in degrees, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the ecliptic graduated in days and marked with symbols for the houses of the zodiac, the oceans labelled with major currents, cable routes and steamship routes accompanied by journey times in days, the Antarctic region labelled RGIONS INEXPLORES, the continents showing major rivers and cities and outlined in red, orange, yellow, pink and brown, with national boundaries marked in red and the Congo strongly coloured in green (old surface abrasion to the Antarctic Circle) -- 34in. (88.3cm.) high
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A late 19th-Century clock globe comprising two bronzed spelter dancing maidens in diaphanous robes, one holding a pair of dividers, a skipping cherub at their feet presenting a banner depicting Zodiacal symbols, atop a stylised rocky landscape, the gilt brass mounting ring applied with a brass plaque for LE GLOBE TERRESTRE Par Lavergne, raised on [?]rosso lanquedoc plinth base with gilt-brass foliate decorations, including four lion paw feet, the clock mounted in the base with in-going barrel movement with strike on bell, off-white enamel Arabic dial decorated with a coloured garland and labelled MOREAU and BLAYE; the maidens holding aloft a scroll branch supporting a 6-inch (5.2cm.) diameter terrestrial globe made up of twelve coloured printed paper gores and two polar calottes, the cartouche in the southern Indian Ocean SPHRE TERRESTRE Dress d'aprs les documents officiels et les dcouvertes les plus rcentes par R. BARBOT Gographe - 4 MDAILLES D'OR, 4 MDAILLES D'ARGENT, J. LEBGUE & Cie DITEURS Fournisseurs du Ministre de l'Instruction Publique, 30, rue de Lille, 30 Paris, the prime meridian graduated in degrees, the equatorial graduated in degrees and hours, the ecliptic graduated in days and marked with symbols for the houses of the zodiac, the oceans labelled with major currents, cable routes and steamship routes accompanied by journey times in days, the Antarctic region labelled RGIONS INEXPLORES, the continents showing major rivers and cities and outlined in red, orange, yellow, pink and brown, with national boundaries marked in red and the Congo strongly coloured in green (old surface abrasion to the Antarctic Circle) -- 34in. (88.3cm.) high
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