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[DELAMARCHE, Felix]
An early 19th-Century pasteboard and card armillary sphere,
unsigned, but probably by Felix Delamarche, with gilded sun ball, the earth arranged to rotate via a pulley, the Zodiac circle printed with a Zodiac calendar, delicately coloured and edged in red, raised on an inverted baluster-shaped support and turned base -- 16in. (40.6cm.) high; together with a companion Ptolemaic armillary sphere, unsigned, possibly by the same maker, with coloured printed paper Zodiac circle, polar, tropical and equatorial rings, the meridian circle with hour scale, the horizon circle supported by four quadrants, mounted on an inverted baluster-shaped support and turned plinth base (both spheres with many surface abrasions, old damages and surface dirt, both stands with old worm damage)
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An early 19th-Century pasteboard and card armillary sphere,
unsigned, but probably by Felix Delamarche, with gilded sun ball, the earth arranged to rotate via a pulley, the Zodiac circle printed with a Zodiac calendar, delicately coloured and edged in red, raised on an inverted baluster-shaped support and turned base -- 16in. (40.6cm.) high; together with a companion Ptolemaic armillary sphere, unsigned, possibly by the same maker, with coloured printed paper Zodiac circle, polar, tropical and equatorial rings, the meridian circle with hour scale, the horizon circle supported by four quadrants, mounted on an inverted baluster-shaped support and turned plinth base (both spheres with many surface abrasions, old damages and surface dirt, both stands with old worm damage)
See Colour Illustration (2)