Nesting wooden egg with English pocket globe inside. 19th Century.
Estimation :
500 / 600
Description
Chromolithography, diameter : 4,4 cm, height container : 9 cm.
Terrestrial globe made up of 12 coloured printed paper gores on a steel axis pin, fitting in a wooden egg-formed carrying case. Represented are the equator, the tropics and the eccliptic. English topographical nomenclature although Tibet is named "Tübet" like in 19th century German literature. Continents in yellow, pink and orange. Outer egg decorated with painted flowers, butterflies, hunting scene and a drinking peasant.
# von Klaproth.- Asia polyglotta, 1823, p. 345.
IHFZ Globe miniature en chromolithographie, dans récipient ovoïde de bois peint.
Terrestrial globe made up of 12 coloured printed paper gores on a steel axis pin, fitting in a wooden egg-formed carrying case. Represented are the equator, the tropics and the eccliptic. English topographical nomenclature although Tibet is named "Tübet" like in 19th century German literature. Continents in yellow, pink and orange. Outer egg decorated with painted flowers, butterflies, hunting scene and a drinking peasant.
# von Klaproth.- Asia polyglotta, 1823, p. 345.
IHFZ Globe miniature en chromolithographie, dans récipient ovoïde de bois peint.
