PAIR OF GEORGE III 9 INCH CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL GLOBES BY WILLIAM BARDIN
CIRCA 1785
£8,820
Auction: Day One: 17 May 2023 | From 11:00
Description
the celestial cartouche reading, ‘The Celestial Globe, Accompanying the Geographical Magazine, Published as the act directs by Harrison & C° N° 18, Paternoster Row, Apr 1 1785, Made by W. Bardin Fleet Street, London’, the terrestrial cartouche indistinctly reading '...made by W. Bar... Fleet Street, London', California is shown as a peninsula, Australia labelled 'New Holland', each globe mounted in a brass meridian within a horizon ring applied with astrological signs, on turned mahogany baluster stands with x-stretchers
Dimensions
29cm diameter, 34cm high
Provenance
Provenance: Purchased Christies, King Street, London, Fine English Furniture 25th Sept 1997, Lot 202
Footnote
Note: William Bardin is recorded as publishing globes from the 1780s onwards, a number of which were produced together with his contemporary Gabriel Wright (1740-1783). Bardin's son, Thomas Marriott Bardin, joined the firm as an apprentice in 1783, shortly after the death of Gabriel Wright. Bardin operated on Fleet Street until 1795 when the company moved to Salisbury Square. Bardin' son and granddaughter Elizabeth continued to make globes into the 1830s.