A William IV Period Terrestrial Table Globe Prepared by G.&J. Cary 1836 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus constructed from joined timber boards

constructed from joined timber boards within a moulded frame and suspended from its original iron hanging rods with disc terminals

were favoured in this later period of Regency design emphasising the gay informality of the new taste rather than the opulent and rich pieces made earlier

The Ancient Egyptians mummified and buried cats

English craftsmen of the late 18th and early 19th centuries originated the hunger for this style of foot after seeing what the Romans did with animal feet

to the lower right corner

A William IV Period Terrestrial Table Globe Prepared by G.&J. Cary 1836 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus constructed from joined timber boardsOrigin: English Period: William IV Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1836 Height: 24. 5 Width: 18. 5 Depth: 18. 5 The attractive, finely mapped and well proportioned paper and plaster terrestrial table globe made up of two sets of twelve hand coloured engraved half gores, with graduated equatorial ecliptic and equinoctial colure, the titular cartouche reading CARY'S NEW TERRESTRIAL GLOBE DELINEATED From the best Authorities extant : Exhibiting the late