Monumental Vintage World Globe with Celestial Markings in Beautiful Pine Stand

Monumental French Victorian gilt bronze frosted globe chandelier fixture lantern. Measures: 50" H x 22" W.  

A beautiful vintage very large Italian crystal beaded sail boat chandelier ship fixture with 4 candelabra internal lights Rewired and ready to install with chain canopy and mounting ...

Beautiful and elegant ball of the world to decorate any studio, living room or bedroom, it is small, with the base about 26 cm high and 10 wide.

Celestial globe compiled on the Hesi & Gould catalogs by Eng. Pini and published in 1889 by Gussoni & Dotti Milano piazza del Duomo. Sphere in paper mache covered with paper printed by engraving on copper plate and hand watercolored, base in turned and ebonized wood. Good condition, conservative restoration at the base. Measures: Height 45 cm, inche 17.8, sphere diameter 22 cm 8.7. Giovanni Gussoni in 1874 bought the business of Antonio Ronchi typographer in Via Unione 5 in Milan, and then moved in 1883 to the shop of the Southern Porticoes in Piazza Duomo. Giovanni Gussoni was followed by his son Vittorio, who on April 16, 1907 sold the company to a collaborator, Giovanni Serra, who continued the business until November 1914. Man has always wanted to know the world in which he lives and has used all the means available to measure the space that surrounds him to expand his knowledge more and more. The conditions that allowed man to develop models of the world and space were probably realized only after...