A Fine Contemporary Taxidermy Hooded Crow on a Victorian c.1880 Chair sub-Curios Simon got tired of asking

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The large rectangular overmantle mirror having the original rectangular heavy glass plate surrounded on three sides by the giltwood beaded frame

surmounted by a cross and bleeding

was originally mentioned in the Domesday Book and became part of the Trentham Estate of the Duke of Sutherland in the nineteenth century

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A Fine Contemporary Taxidermy Hooded Crow on a Victorian c.1880 Chair sub-Curios Simon got tired of askingOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian & Contemporary Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 & c. 2013 Height: 45 inches (the whole) The Chair: 19. 5 inches deep x 19. 5 inches wide The large and fine stuffed and mounted hooded crow (Corvus cornix) specimen perched on a late victorian button back leather upholstered walnut nursing chair in faded condition with armorial cresting and carved turnings, the whole representing decay. Tithonus by Alfred Lord