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Specialist Consultant Collectors, Science & Marine
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Provenance:
The Stephen Edell Collection.
A leading figure of the London globe trade during the first half of the 18th century, John Senex (1678-1740) first worked with Charles Price and a number of other makers before he moved to his own premises in Fleet street by 1710.
Senex produced globes in a range of sizes, from 2 3/4in pocket globes to examples measuring 9in, 12in, 17in, and 27in diameter. The inclusion of the initials F.R.S on the cartouche of the present globe indicates that it was made after 1728, the year Senex was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
The Senex copper plates for the globes (except for the pocket globes) saw continued use for decades after his death. In 1757 the plates were purchased by James Ferguson, and these designs featured on globes made in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, by Benjamin Martin and later by Dudley Adams.