A BRASS FIGURE OF ATLAS SUPPORTING THE GLOBE

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A BRASS FIGURE OF ATLAS SUPPORTING THE GLOBE
PROBABLY FLEMISH, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY

On a modern wooden base.
Several casting flaws and plugs; crack to base.
8 5/8in. (21.9cm.) high

Lot Essay

Although a globe which is as simply engraved as the present example need not necessarily be complete, it is interesting to note that the geographic discoveries made of the western Australian coast in 1618 and on into the 1620's have not been included in this representation of the earth's known territories.

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