Photo Notes 金嵌珍珠天球仪
Gold pearl inlay celestial globe, Qianlong, ball diameter 29.5cm, rack high 61.5cm.
Gold pearl inlay celestial globe is a Qing Dynasty imperial palace built office made of gold model. Celestial globe is composed of a seat, and the bracket is composed of three parts. The celestial sphere with pearl inlaid 28 constellations, 300 constellations and more than 2200 stars, and incised Ziwei yuan, day yuan and too Wei yuan. Around sphere with equatorial ring and the horizontal ring, the Arctic as well as the hour wheel. Kowloon surround the four bracket supporting a gold ball. The lower four beasts full ring seat, seat of East, South, West, North quad word, a heart for the compass ( Compass ).
Celestial globe is also called" free" or" celestial globe". This device is spread so far only one to gold armillary sphere model, precious.