Name: A Fine Contemporary Taxidermy Hooded Crow on a Victorian c.1880 Chair
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SKU: 31940348194
Price: 325.00 USD
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A Fine Contemporary Taxidermy Hooded Crow on a Victorian c.1880 Chair

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A Fine Contemporary Taxidermy Hooded Crow on a Victorian c.1880 ChairOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian & Contemporary Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 & c. 2013 Height: 45 inches (the whole) The Chair: 19. 5 inches deep x 19. 5 inches wide The large and fine stuffed and mounted hooded crow (Corvus cornix) specimen perched on a late victorian button back leather upholstered walnut nursing chair in faded condition with armorial cresting and carved turnings, the whole representing decay. Tithonus by Alfred Lord

this example is scarce and could now be utilised in a multitude of ingenious ways

largely Italianate

with scenes printed on a variety of bowls

architecture

Period: Art Nouveau

showing the marks of Waller and Hartley Limited Blackpool

but was released in 1813

probably due to constant positioning in direct sunlight

Apparent flaws are the hinged sprung jaw to the skull is loose

Between 1817 and 1863 Parker exhibited eighty-six pictures in London

Greek colony Priene

‘hatchment cloths’