Name: Auction: GEORGE III 16 INCH CELESTIAL GLOBE AND STAND, BY JOHN SENEX DATED 1757
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 2500 GBP
Availability: InStock

Day One | Wed 12th Nov at 10am | Lots 1 to 338

Day Two | Thurs 13th Nov at 10am | Lots 339 to 600

We are pleased to present the November 2025 edition of Five Centuries, held at our historic saleroom in Edinburgh and online.Spanning the decorative arts from the 16th to the 20th century, this carefully curated sale offers a rich and varied selection of traditional British and European furniture, paintings, clocks, ceramics, sculpture and works of art.&nbsp;This edition features property from notable private collections, including Property of a Knightsbridge Residence; Select Pieces Previously at Kinross House; Property of a Belgravia Residence; Property from Westness House, Orkney; Property from the Ursula &amp; Gordon Bowyer Collection; a collection of paintings by Austrian artists; and a collection of early bronzes from The Bernard Kelly Collection.Buyer's Guide:

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with twelve gores, meridian and brass horizon rings, with two cartouches, the first inscribed ‘THE CELESTIAL GLOBE On which the True Face of the Heavens is delineated & the Constellations containing upwards of 2000 Stars more than are on any former Globes, are laid down from the most recent & Accurate Observations of Astronomers and Adjusted to the Year 1740, by Jo.N SENEX F.R.S. New Made & Sold with Several New Improvements by BENJ: MARTIN only, in Fleet Street London 1757’; the second in Latin and dated 1740; on a baluster turned mahogany stand with cabriole legs ending in pointed pad feet

GEORGE III 16 INCH CELESTIAL GLOBE AND STAND, BY JOHN SENEX

DATED 1757

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