A Sublime Museum Cased Taxidermy Female Teal c.1865-85, by R.Duncan of Newcastle Upon Tyne

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A Sublime Museum Cased Taxidermy Female Teal c.1865-85, by R.Duncan of Newcastle Upon TyneOrigin: English Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1865 1885 The Case: Depth: 6 Width: 16 Height: 12 The beautifully preserved female teal duck (Anas Crecca) the specimen set upon a typical Duncan wooden block and housed within a beautiful scientific sparse museum case, the pine sides in the original painted black, the whole being beautifully unassuming with ivory paper backing, signed R. Duncan to the top left corner, and lacking

his most important work

The pink velvet has some issues in terms of abrasion marks

and we feel it’s condition and it being unframed only add to its overall charm

Heights: 42

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas or Lebas (8 July 1707 - 14 April 1783) was a French engraver to the Cabinet du roi and successfully produced engravings after several paintings by different artists

this example is fairly unusual in that it has a series of drawers to the lower section instead of simply three cupboards

Sells Floto Circus

as we see in this picture

‘Anti-tube bladders of colour’ (January 1841 p

though there are similar tin examples that were baby strollers with support handles for pushing though we can rule this out here because of the prescence of the footrest though there are wheels which may suggest he was part of a different fairground ride altogether

lettered “John Jameson & son ltd

Folding screens were then introduced in the Late Middle Ages to Europe and in the 17th and 18th century

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