Each globe with 12 hand-colored engraved gores, circular title cartouche, brass hour circle at northern pole, brass meridian ring, graduated on one face, hand-colored engraved horizon ring with zodiac and calendar scales, marked New Terrestrial Globe and New Celestial Globe, mahogany baluster stand with cross-stretchers supporting center-post, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
5¹⁄₄ in. (13.3 cm.) high, 4⁵⁄₈ in. (11.7 cm.) diameter, overall

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 20 May 1992, lot 341.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

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This is a rare pair of English miniature globes, by Thomas Harris and Son, 'Opticians and Globe Makers to his Majesty, and the Dukes of Kent and Sussex, 52 Great Russell Street'. Despite their royal patronage, remarkably few of their miniature globes appear to have survived.