A PAIR OF GLOBES of Louis XIV style with brass indicator rings, the terrestrial with dedicatory panel Dedicé et presentée/A MONSEIGNEUR/...DAUPHIN/Par se... tres humble et tres Obeissant Serviteur/Bion, the celestial with panel Se Fait et Pend Chez/N.BION. Ingenieux/pour les Instruments/de Mathematiques sur/le Quay de L'Horloge/du Palais/...Paris, on Italian black painted and parcel-gilt stands with part-gadrooned turned shafts and concave-sided triangular bases centred by foliage and with foliate angles, on claw- and-ball feet, the globes and stands 19th Century, restorations, the stands redecorated