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Click here to subscribeA Mdina spherical vase with collar neck and pulled ear handles cased in clear over a streaked and swirled turquoise and green ground, together with a Japanese bottle globe vase in mottled cloudy two tone turquoise and a small low shouldered vase, one having an engraved Mdina signature, tallest 15cm.
A small group of Mdina vases to comprise globe and shaft, compressed spherical and shouldered ovoid examples cased in clear over a streaked green and turquoise ground, tallest 15.5cm, together with a cylindrical bowl with applied turquoise glass characters over deep amethyst ground, two having engraved Mdina signatures.
Meissen figure group emblematic of Wisdom, modelled with Minerva standing beside a globe accompanied by cherubs reading from scriptures, late 19th century, made to accompany the figure group of War, blue crossed swords mark and inscribed marks to base, (some old restorations, lacking spear) 21cm high
A 2.5 inch miniature table globe, J Manning, London, mid 19th century. The sphere applied with twelve hand- coloured gores and signed OUTLINE OF THE EARTH BY J. MANNING to the North Pacific, mounted via two conical pivots at the poles onto a brass meridian half-circle supported on a turned upright with disc base, some damage, 12.5cm high overall. See Museum Boerhaave, Leiden and Christies The World In Your Hands - An Exhibition of Globes and Planetaria 18th March - 24th September 1995 page 78 for a similar slightly larger globe. Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports.
A Major's full dress blue tunic of The Royal Marines, d 1931, scarlet collar, gilt lace and cord trim to collar, cord to skirts, lace to slashed cuffs, gilt shoulder cords and embroidered collar badges with solid globe centres, good gilt buttons, name inside R J D Robinson, RM, Dec 1931, pair overalls with narrow scarlet stripe. GC (minor stitching faults). Plate 3
Apianus, Petrus Cosmographica. per Gemmam Frisium. iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis, ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta. Additus eiusdem argumenti libellis ipsius Gemmae Frisii. Antwerp: Gregorius Bontius, 1550. 4to (227 x 152mm.), woodcut of a globe on title, woodcut device on final verso, woodcut initials, woodcut diagrams and maps (some full-page), those on folio 9, 11, 28, 49 with volvelles, contemporary blind-tooled sheep, lacking world map, some staining, title-page soiled with small portion missing from upper margin affecting two letters, f.50 torn with loss of several words, woodcut on verso of folio 9 possibly lacking a volvelle, binding very worn with crude repairs .
A pair of George III 18in terrestrial and celestial globes by George and Dudley Adams, London, the celestial globe bearing the trade label 'Made by D Adams, Globe Manufacturer and Mathematical Instrument Maker, Charing Cross, London', the terrestrial globe bearing trade label 'Londini apud G. Adams artificem Reguim in vico Fleet Street', the mahogany tripod stands with baluster stems, cabriole legs and on pointing hoof feet, 82cm high, both damaged. *Provenance: Puslinch. **For a discussion of similar globes see Elly Dekker and Peter Vander Krogt Globes from the Western World, page 111.
A small Mdina "Ming" type shouldered globe vase cased with clear over vertical fragmented "Ming" style pattern in tonal turquoise over a sandy ochre ground, together with a rounded square section vase with collar and flared neck, a low shouldered vase and a small twin handled scroll stylised basket, one having an engraved Mdina signature, tallest 17cm.
A late 19th Century Thomas Webbs Queens Burmese fairy night light table centre, the circular mirrored base fitted with a brass gallery with six radiating arms holding globe and shaft posy vases and domes around a central upper dome, one stamped with patent marks, height approx 24cm, lacking Clarkes patent bases.
A late 19th Century cast Brass Mounted Walnut Mantel Clock, Lenzkirch 113028, the case with overhanging cornice surmounted by an architectural pediment, with urn and globe finials and mounts, to lions mask and ring side handles and caryatid corner mounts to a glazed door, and raised on a plinth base with scrolling bracket feet, to a 7" arched brass dial with applied Roman and Arabic chapter ring, to a matted centre and blued steel hands, and signed square plated movement, with anchor escapement and strike on two blued steel coiled gongs, height 23"
A late 18th Century Mahogany cased 8-day Long Case Clock, T O Springfield of Norwich, the hood with overhanging cornice surmounted by three lacquered Brass globe and spike finials, to freestanding columns and ogee throat to a long arched trunk door and raised on a plinth base, to a 12" arched first period painted dial, decorated with floral urn and wheat ears to the arch, over gilt highlighted rosette spandrels enclosing a chapter ring, subsidiary seconds and date sector with pierced steel hands, to an Osborne of Birmingham false plate and movement with plates united by four knopped pillars and anchor escapement, strike on a bell, height 87"
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