A 19th-Century carved wooden figure of Atlas supporting a celestial globe,
A 19th-Century carved wooden figure of Atlas supporting a celestial globe,

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A 19th-Century carved wooden figure of Atlas supporting a celestial globe,
unsigned, decorated with (worn) gilt paint, the celestial sphere with one hemisphere decorated with various lines, stars, a ladder, scales and Sun and Moon, the Atlas figure wearing a cloth around his waist and with an old hole [?]for mounting to the reverse, standing on a small unmarked sphere and raised on a (later) brass wire and stepped ebonised wooden base -- 10in. (25.4cm.) high

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