One of the highlights of Mossgreen’s sale of Decorative Arts to be held in Armadale, Melbourne, on May 8-9 is this 11in (26.5cm) diameter 17th century terrestrial table globe with its original mahogany cradle.
The globe is only the second known example of Matthaeus Greuter’s terrestrial globe, which was published in Rome in 1638 by Giovanni Battista de Rossi after Greuter’s death in that year. It features Rossi’s imprint to one cartouche and Greuter’s name to another.