Antique Persian Qajar Period Arabic Islamic Celestial Brass Globe Astrolabe 1850 Drawings & Prints The sky is slightly overcast

The sky is slightly overcast with the sun starting to break through

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these panels are interrupted with engraved roundels containing silver inlaid birds with anthropomorphic faces

Antique Persian Qajar Period Arabic Islamic Celestial Brass Globe Astrolabe 1850 Drawings & Prints The sky is slightly overcastA 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