A Fine Victorian Taxidermy Butterfly-Mounted Cheval Fire Screen c.1880; Ex Pitt Rivers Museum sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus with some tattiness to the

with some tattiness to the bariading in places with loss

the reverse with Hō-ō

Part of the Tyrol is in Austria and part is in Italy with the North Tyrol in Austria

The mirror plate appears to be original with the backboards in place and a hanging hook integral to it

survives from mid nineteenth century Europe

A Fine Victorian Taxidermy Butterfly-Mounted Cheval Fire Screen c.1880; Ex Pitt Rivers Museum sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus with some tattiness to theOrigin: 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