A LOUIS XV/XVI ORMOLU AND MEISSEN PORCELAIN DESK ORNAMENT

A LOUIS XV/XVI ORMOLU AND MEISSEN PORCELAIN DESK ORNAMENT
Circa 1765
The central celestial glass globe decorated with gilt trails on a mottled red ground and supported by a domed, facetted socle flanked by Meissen porcelain putti emblematic of Astronomy and Mathematics, one with a telescope, the other writing numerical calculations, on a shaped, breakfronted rectangular plinth with pounced panels and various scientific instruments scattered upon it, on foliate-cast scroll feet
8in. (21cm.) high, 9in. (23.5cm.) wide, 4in. (11.5cm.) deep