A PAIR OF LOUIS XV CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL GLOBES

Lot 16
27.01.2023 12:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 16 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XV CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL GLOBES
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$ 150 000 – 250 000
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL GLOBES

BY JEAN-LOUIS-JACQUES BARADELLE, PARIS, THE CELESTIAL GLOBE DATED 1750, THE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE DATED 1774

Each globe supported on flaming garland held aloft by an outstretched ormolu arm emerging from blue-painted wooden cloud-form base; the celestial globe with two cartouches, one reads 'GLOBE CELESTE / Dedié et Présenté à / Monseigneur le / DAUPHIN / par Jean Baradelle / calculé sur les mem[oir]es / de Mess[ieurs] de l'Académ[ie] / Royale des Sc[ien]ces / Pour l'année 1750 / Cl[aude] Roy del[ineavit] et sculp[sit]', the other reads with obscured inscription; the terrestrial globe with two cartouches, one reads 'A PARIS / Chez l'Auteur / Quai de l'Horloge / du Palais / à l'Enseigne de / l'Observatoire / Avec Privilege du / Roy.' and dated 1774, the other reads 'GLOBE TERRESTRE / Dédié et Presenté à / Monseigneur Le / DAUPHIN / par Jacques Baradelle / dressé sur les Nouvelles Observations de Messieurs de l'Acad[émie] Royale des Sciences / Aubin scul[psit] et scrips[it]', each meridian ring inscribed 'BARADELLE L'AINÉ PARIS'

25 in. (63.5 cm.) high, 14 1/2 in. (37 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Eugène Roussel (1833-1894).

Marguerite Moreau-Chaslon (b. c. 1847).

Collection Roussel: Objets d'Art, Instruments de Mathématiques Anciens; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13-15 March 1911, lot 54.

Private Collection, by circa 1930.

Private French Collection.



Literature

Bonnaffé, Edmond, "A propos d’une collection d’instruments de mathématiques," L’Art, Revue hebdomadaire illustrée, Paris and London, Vol. III, 1880, p. 139.



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