Taxidermy Paradise Bird Dome
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Fine late-Victorian Lesser bird-of-paradise housed beneath its original glass domed display. This male exhibits an excellent colouration and long feather plumes for which the species is renown. Perched on an ornate, lichen-covered and twisted branch above a textured base with foliage. The oval shaped plinth has an ebonised finished with four bun feet.
Log: 204
Date: c1900
Height 61cm Width 34cm Depth 20cm