A Fine Victorian Taxidermy Butterfly-Mounted Cheval Fire Screen c.1880; Ex Pitt Rivers Museum antiques His Bakelite plug has since

His Bakelite plug has since been replaced with a modern fitting one and he once again proudly shines his 15 watts of love over any room lucky enough to have him

set against a largely unresolved ground where the bare canvas remains visible and the whole surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth century

each with Japanese characters

added around 1913

A Fine Victorian Taxidermy Butterfly-Mounted Cheval Fire Screen c.1880; Ex Pitt Rivers Museum antiques His Bakelite plug has sinceOrigin: English Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, England Date: c. 1880 Height: 44. 5 Width: 26 (to include balustrade mouldings) Depth: 12. 5 (at legs) The exquisite quality rectangular double sided cheval fire screen or room divider, inset with symmetrical arrangements of exotic butterflies and moths, totalling over five hundred specimens, the collection being glazed to a minimalist museum ivory buff ground