A Very Fine & Rare French Rock Crystal Ball On a Fine Ormolu Stand c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage a handful of the handles

a handful of the handles and the bracket feet are later additions

The lozenge shaped date registration marks to the base are too worn to read

and she always said no

Crooked back

the whole standing on bracket feet with shaped apron canopy

A Very Fine & Rare French Rock Crystal Ball On a Fine Ormolu Stand c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage a handful of the handlesOrigin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 Height: 8. 25 (Overall) Stand Height: 5. 5 Base Width: 4 Diameter: 3. 5 (The Sphere) The very fine quality sphere of rock crystal, of extraordinary purity, cradled on a wonderful ornate gilt brass ormuolu stand with avian (probably cockerel) monopodia supports, ribbon cresting and hung with lustres, the whole on a rose quartz triform base, and surviving from the zeniths of