A Fine 20thC Dome Cased Taxidermy Specimen of a Crimson Rosella sub-Religion & Relics this piece of sculpture is

this piece of sculpture is essentially designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and of the brevity and fragility of human life in the face of God and nature

A folding screen was often decorated with beautiful art

and eyes (lacking rod)

Showing weathering commensurate with age

to include a mother in a red bonnet with a child

A Fine 20thC Dome Cased Taxidermy Specimen of a Crimson Rosella sub-Religion & Relics this piece of sculpture isOrigin: English Period: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1950 80 Height: 18 inches (the whole) Base Diameter: 9. 5 inches The well preserved and mounted crimson rosella (Platycercus Elegans) perched on a naturalistic outcrop under a good quality late Victorian glass dome and raised on an ebonised plinth socle base with ruby red twist bordering survives in very good overall condition from middle of the twentieth century. They said