A Good Quality 20thC Dome Cased Pair of Taxidermy Rainbow Lorikeets

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A Good Quality 20thC Dome Cased Pair of Taxidermy Rainbow LorikeetsOrigin: English Period: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1950 80 Height: 14 inches (the whole) Base Diameter: 8. 75 inches The well preserved and mounted pair of rainbow lorikeets (Race Moluccanus) perched on a naturalistic outcrop under a good quality late Victorian glass dome and raised on an ebonised plinth socle base survives in very good overall condition from middle of the twentieth century. Theres no such thing as a nice shade

The middle ground is further populated by a series of geometrical motifs and is finished with a serpent border

It was one of the biggest funerals ever seen in Hawkridge

he can be admired for the brave hero he his

His conjuring appears to have been a secondary occupation as he claimed to have worked in over forty other jobs

the work left abandoned and unfinished

in a wide variety of colourways

Giorgio de Chirico

Full of character

Educated at St John's Wood School of Art

the label for ‘Royal Orchid’ with canted corners and gilt border

SOLD Good decorative condition

Flaxman's original drawings for this work are preserved at the Royal Academy of Arts