拍品专文
This signature was the standard method used by Carl Bauer (1780-1857) in signing his miniature globes. The globe is made in the traditional method of applying paper gores to a plaster sphere.
.jpg?w=1)
CARL BAUER, NUREMBURG (1780-1857)
细节
An early 9th-Century Miniature terrestrial globe on a carved stand in the form of a walnut
Carl Bauer, Nuremburg (1780-1857)
signed M C B (to the left of Tierra del Fuego), the 1¼-inch (3.2 cm.) diameter terrestrial globe made up of twelve engraved and hand-colored gores with coastlines colored in red, yellow or orange, and some countries and cities identified, in a case carved to resemble a walnut and displayed on a (modern) mahogany stand
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high on stand
Carl Bauer, Nuremburg (1780-1857)
signed M C B (to the left of Tierra del Fuego), the 1¼-inch (3.2 cm.) diameter terrestrial globe made up of twelve engraved and hand-colored gores with coastlines colored in red, yellow or orange, and some countries and cities identified, in a case carved to resemble a walnut and displayed on a (modern) mahogany stand
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high on stand