Celestial globe
Charles Malby
Category
Furniture
Date
1851
Materials
Plaster, paper, ebonised mahogany and metal
Measurements
660 x 490 mm
Place of origin
Parker Street
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Lyme, Cheshire
NT 499558.2
Summary
One of a pair of nineteenth century globes. the wooden sphere covered with a celestial map printed on paper; mounted on a circular ebonised-wood frame with three ring-turned legs joined by turned stretchers with a central support.
Provenance
This pair of globes was purchased for the house for the National Trust, by John King, an antique dealer in Poynton, for £1485.
Marks and inscriptions
MALBY'S / CELESTIAL GLOBE Exhibiting the whole of the / STARS / Contained in the Catalogues of / Bozzi, Bradley, Heverhus, Nayer, La Caille and Johnson Stars / The Double Stars form Sir W. Herschel and Struve / reduced to the year /_______1860________ / By J[NO] Addison / MANUFACTURED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE / OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE / [] MALBY and SON / 37 Park Street, Little Queen Street, / Lincoln's Inn Fields: / London / 1851 / Engraved by Cha[s] Malby (printed on a fictive label on the surface of the globe)
Makers and roles
Charles Malby, engraver (printmaker) Thomas Malby and Son, retailer