Name: A Museum Cased Late Victorian Pair of Taxidermy Dunlins by Joseph Cullingford of Durham 1898/99
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A Museum Cased Late Victorian Pair of Taxidermy Dunlins by Joseph Cullingford of Durham 1898/99

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A Museum Cased Late Victorian Pair of Taxidermy Dunlins by Joseph Cullingford of Durham 1898/99Origin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1898 & 1899The Case: Depth: 6. 5Width: 15Height: 15The beautifully preserved male and female pair of Dunlins ( Calidris alpina) poised in opposing positions, the male stood, with the female rendered in flight, housed within a typical Cullingford glazed museum case being square and black painted, the interior beautifully sparse with buff paper backing and lacking in simulated habitat, the

there are no structural cracks or flaws

With the original paintwork and ironwork being retained the piece is wonderfully original

Overall she remains sturdy and sound

Henry Perlee Parker (1795–1873) produced a variety of portraits and genre subjects

the smaller of the two

and today they are museum pieces and heirlooms

Origin: European

nose and to one horn

When the mirror came to us it was filthy and we have carefully cleaned and stabilised it without meddling with its original aesthetic

some being gilt decorated

Paterson`s Rice Starch

the wholes shod with iron and with brass toe-caps