A Fine c.1895 French Terrestrial Table Globe; “Globe Terrestre” prepared by J FOREST, Paris sub-Curios The George III Chippendale period

The George III Chippendale period mahogany birdcage action tea table having a one piece circular pie crust top

and some of Portland stone but none carved in wood solely as a decorative object

and it is not unusual to find little tassels adorning them

but the romanticism that was to characterise the Victorian era had begun to take hold

opera glasses and as we see here

A Fine c.1895 French Terrestrial Table Globe; “Globe Terrestre” prepared by J FOREST, Paris sub-Curios The George III Chippendale periodOrigin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: 1895 1900 Height: 21 inches (the whole, with finial) Diameter: 10 inches (the globe) The well proportioned paper, plaster and cardboard, ten inch terrestrial globe concerned with physics, politics and history, with brass meridian circle and finial standing on the original turned ebonised base, the whole prepared by J FOREST, and stamped as such; Globe Terrestre a l'echelle de dresse par j.