Antique Persian Qajar Period Arabic Islamic Celestial Brass Globe Astrolabe 1850 Sold A fine & rare antique

A fine & rare antique carved hall table

Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art and New Haven

The clock depicts a handsome tall winged angel holding a stylus and leaning on a column with two volumes on philosophy

an almost identical tile in size and design is housed in the collection of the Pera Museum Istanbul Turkey

Antique Persian Qajar Period Arabic Islamic Celestial Brass Globe Astrolabe 1850 Sold A fine & rare antiqueA very good antique 19th Century Islamic Persian Arabic brass celestial globe, astrolabe, circa 1850. This is a very attractive antique Islamic Qajar period brass Persian Arabic armillary (spherical astrolabe), celestial globe, circa 1850. The globe having a graduated ring engraved with Arabic Script (rather than Farsi, Persia being an Islamic country used Arabic for such items), the hollow sphere mounted on an axle & is ornately engraved with