A Large Decorative Dome Cased Exotic Lepidopterists’ Display sub-Antiques The red velvet ground is

The red velvet ground is thinning in some small areas and the bone crucifix is loose on its axis whilst the ebonised pine is in good order and the piece retains its old hanging hook for display

a bit more reliant on common sense

that example being in oils

what a lovely mock coral base you are sitting on

Britain and Germany before World War I

A Large Decorative Dome Cased Exotic Lepidopterists’ Display sub-Antiques The red velvet ground isOrigin: English with the Specimens Indonesian & South American Period: Late Twentieth Century & Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1980 2000 (the arrangement), c. 1880 (the dome) The Dome: Height: 20. 5 inches Base: 14 x 7 inches The turned oval stained oak base having a large nineteenth century glass dome cover, containing an arrangement of sixteen preserved butterfly specimens consisting of thirteen Orange Barred Sulphur specimens