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A fine early 21st-Century silver-plated armillary sphere signed on the base-plate A. Moretti Roma
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A fine early 21st-Century silver-plated armillary sphere signed on the base-plate A. Moretti Roma
the sphere with an unmarked Earth ball within ten unengraved gimballed planet rings with planet names in Italian, unengraved hour, polar and tropic rings, hour dial and turned finial, the meridian circle engraved on both sides with degrees in four quadrants and EQUATORE, CIRCOLO POLARE ARTICO, TROPICO DEL CAPRICORNO, CIRCOLO POLARE ANTARCTICO and TROPICO DEL CANCRO, the horizon ring graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with names and ,
pictures for the latter, supported on four elegantly baluster-turned legs, each with finial, on square section columns with an engraved rose on each side, united by a pierced circular plate with eight wind directions in Italian, at the centre a glazed compass box with engraved wind rose, sixteen compass points and steel needle (glass cracked)-- 15¼in. (38.7cm.)
the sphere with an unmarked Earth ball within ten unengraved gimballed planet rings with planet names in Italian, unengraved hour, polar and tropic rings, hour dial and turned finial, the meridian circle engraved on both sides with degrees in four quadrants and EQUATORE, CIRCOLO POLARE ARTICO, TROPICO DEL CAPRICORNO, CIRCOLO POLARE ANTARCTICO and TROPICO DEL CANCRO, the horizon ring graduated in days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac with names and ,
pictures for the latter, supported on four elegantly baluster-turned legs, each with finial, on square section columns with an engraved rose on each side, united by a pierced circular plate with eight wind directions in Italian, at the centre a glazed compass box with engraved wind rose, sixteen compass points and steel needle (glass cracked)-- 15¼in. (38.7cm.)