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Celestial Globe, Indo-Persian, Lahore, 17th Century

Inventory Number 36638


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.36638

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by Lewis Evans in 1924. Bought from Sayyid Bahadur Shah in Lahore, by H. Beveridge, and later sold to Lewis Evans.
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated
Object type
Celestial globe
Dimensions
Height: 190mm
Inventory No
36638
Accession Number
1924-0/part

Description

Indo-Persian celestial globe;17th century

Bronze. Not signed or dated; probably made in Lahore, c.1660.

57 stars are marked in addition to the usual great circles.