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Current Posts => Collecting, Modding, Turning and Spin Science => Topic started by: jim in paris on September 30, 2017, 01:00:55 AM

Title: antique table
Post by: jim in paris on September 30, 2017, 01:00:55 AM

hi all

a "pier table" from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O58222/pier-table-piffetti-pietro/

when you download the image you can see the ornament:
is it an angel playing a top?

jim

Title: Re: antique table
Post by: Kirk on September 30, 2017, 09:11:01 AM

Is he spinning the Earth?

Title: Re: antique table
Post by: ta0 on September 30, 2017, 11:17:48 AM

Quote from: Kirk on September 30, 2017, 09:11:01 AM

Is he spinning the Earth?

The description does in fact say that it's a globe. It also says that there is a similar table where the cherub has a telescope.
But the Earth IS a top!  ;)