A Good c.1900 Dome Cased Taxidermy Fruit Bat sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles The Canvas: 36” x 30

The Canvas: 36” x 30

The black painted terracotta figural garden urn of very large size

were originally woven indoors on large vertical looms

The glazed pine shadow box case housing four specimens of silk moth (Bombyx mori) surviving from the middle of the twentieth century

A Good c.1900 Dome Cased Taxidermy Fruit Bat sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles The Canvas: 36” x 30Origin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 Height: 16 Base Diameter: 11. 25 The rare preserved mature fruit bat, posed hanging upside down, to a grassy naturalistic base, and housed in its original glass domed case to ebonised base and rope twist border, the whole surviving from the zeniths of Victorian period England. The specimen is presented in very good condition considering the relative fragility and age. The entire