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Details
A 20th-Century brass armillary sphere,
unsigned, with meridian, polar, tropic and equatorial rings around a green painted earthball, the ecliptic band stamped with figures for the houses of the Zodiac, the main meridian graduated in degrees in four quadrants, the graduated horizon on two graduated quadrant supports, held aloft by a bronze figure of Hercules wearing the skin of the lion of Cithaeron standing on a stylised rocky base
91cm. high
unsigned, with meridian, polar, tropic and equatorial rings around a green painted earthball, the ecliptic band stamped with figures for the houses of the Zodiac, the main meridian graduated in degrees in four quadrants, the graduated horizon on two graduated quadrant supports, held aloft by a bronze figure of Hercules wearing the skin of the lion of Cithaeron standing on a stylised rocky base
91cm. high
Special notice
Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.