Vintage Butterfly Case I - Formerly Museum Collection Mid 20th Century

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Vintage Butterfly Case I - Formerly Museum Collection Mid 20th CenturyAn incredibly beautiful collection of Butterflies housed in a glass museum case from a European Museum c. 1950. The glass box allows us to view the perfect beauty of species of the family Papilionidae This particular case holds many butterflies found in the British isles: Peacock; Painted Lady and Brimstone to name a few. Post Renaissance the growing interest in Butterfly collecting or studying, related to the expanding knowledge of science, nature

the ‘Sale of the Royal House of Hanover’

A striking pair of architectural lion corbels carved from Belgian bluestone (Petit Granit – Pierre Bleue de Belgique)

A beautifully modelled and sculpted Italian terracotta Hound

this piece is offered for sale for the first time since it was commissioned in the mid 1760s

Used to carry the Bolts for the Huntsman’s Crossbow

turned yellow and penetrated

A superb and huge pair of Terracotta Gatekeeper Lions or Dogs of Foo

Pair of composite stone pigs

”- Hayley Mills-Dennison

The original sculpture was Hellenistic belonging to the school of Pergamum (160-150 B

Scotland c 1920

a spray of lilies carried by St