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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

with some tattiness to the bariading in places with loss

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

Part of the Tyrol is in Austria and part is in Italy with the North Tyrol in Austria

1998Height: 58"Depth: 31”Width: 48” (all approximate and at extremities)The unique and expertly crafted life-size theatre prop of an androgynous acrobatic clown with  auburn bunned hair

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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