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A Charles Price 9-inch terrestrial table globe, English, circa 1720, image 1
A Charles Price 9-inch terrestrial table globe, English, circa 1720, image 2
The Stephen Edell Collection of Pocket and Table Globes
Lot 182

A Charles Price 9-inch terrestrial table globe,
English, circa 1720,

15 September 2021, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £6,120 inc. premium

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A Charles Price 9-inch terrestrial table globe, English, circa 1720,

the cartouche printed Carlo Price Londini Fecit, on associated stand with facsimile printed horizon ring scale, the sphere with twelve printed gores and two polar calottes all hand coloured, brass meridian ring mounted with hour circle, California is shown as an island and the Chinese Great Wall is indicated, on stand with four turned mahogany legs with stretcher,
13in (34cm) high

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Stephen Edell Collection.

Charles Price (fl.1697-1733) was an accomplished globe-maker, appearing to prefer prestigious collaborations to working alone. Between 1697 and 1715, he made globes together with Jeremiah Seller (the son of John Seller Senior, whom Price was apprenticed to in 1693), John Senex, George Willdey, and Benjamin Scott.

Information on Price's later life and career are rare, and unfortunate in nature. Suffering financial hardship, Price spent Christmas of 1731 in the Fleet Prison and died two years later.

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