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A Fine Victorian Taxidermy Butterfly-Mounted Cheval Fire Screen c.1880; Ex Pitt Rivers Museum sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus the reverse with Hō-ō

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Description

the reverse with Hō-ō

She remains very decorative and essentially sound considering she is so versatile and would have been moved into thousands of different positions over decades of use

with hand pasted and painted black script to both sides on thick parchment paper reading “Special Gospel Meetings Elim Hall

with some tattiness to the bariading in places with loss

A Fine Victorian Taxidermy Butterfly-Mounted Cheval Fire Screen c.1880; Ex Pitt Rivers Museum sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus the reverse with Hō-ōOrigin: English Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, England Date: c. 1880 Height: 44. 5 Width: 26 (to include balustrade mouldings) Depth: 12. 5 (at legs) The exquisite quality rectangular double sided cheval fire screen or room divider, inset with symmetrical arrangements of exotic butterflies and moths, totalling over five hundred specimens, the collection being glazed to a minimalist museum ivory buff ground

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