A REGENCE BEECHWOOD TABLE-GLOBE

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A REGENCE BEECHWOOD TABLE-GLOBE
The Louis XVI celestial globe inscribed 'PARIS chez FORTIN Ingénieur et Mécanicien du, Roi pour les Globes et Spheres. Rue de la Harpe. 1780' set within a moulded circular frame supported by four cabriole legs headed by stylised scrolled scallop-shells and hatched lambrequins, the cabochon-headed acanthus scroll feet joined by a baluster X-shaped stretcher carved with egg and dart, husks and stylised C-scrolls and centred by a canted bronze boss, restorations, the stretchers resupported, the circular frame with eight filled holes
22½ in. (59 cm.) high; 18 in. (46 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Jean-Baptiste Fortin, Ingénieur et Mécanicien du Roi pour les Globes et Spheres', Publisher and Instrument-maker, flourished from 1750-1817 with his brother Nicolas in the rue de la Harpe. Following Jean-Baptiste's death in 1817, he was succeeded by Felix Delamarche.

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