Antique Persian Qajar Period Arabic Islamic Celestial Brass Globe Astrolabe 1850 Drawings & Prints Jan Cossiers was a pupil

Jan Cossiers was a pupil of his father

and keep food above warm

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

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

his work epitomizes Swedish Romanticism and this painting is a wonderful representation of that style

Antique Persian Qajar Period Arabic Islamic Celestial Brass Globe Astrolabe 1850 Drawings & Prints Jan Cossiers was a pupilA 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