Ptolemaic armillary sphere, 35"h
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Contemporary Ptolemaic armillary sphere, the terrestrial globe covered with a printed paper map and rotating around the gilt sphere of the sun, surrounded by a series of seven interlocking printed paper covered wooden armillary rings representing the circles of the heavens, including the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the fixed rim decorated with ram's head masks flanked by putti at the cardinal directions, the whole rising on a turned wood standard fitted with a compass, resting on a stepped octagonal foot, 34.5"h x 30.75"dia.
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Ptolemaic armillary sphere, 35"h
Estimate $350 - $450
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