A Good Quality Victorian Dome Cased Taxidermy White Cockatoo c.1880 sub-Curios Early examples of the craft

Early examples of the craft survive at Parc des Buttes-Chaumont opened for an exposition in Paris in 1867

These flat carved legs

There are small sections of loss to the frieze and some damages to the base

E” survives from the middle of the nineteenth century and is contemporary with the murders of Jack the Ripper of 1888

his feet turn out

A Good Quality Victorian Dome Cased Taxidermy White Cockatoo c.1880 sub-Curios Early examples of the craftOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Height: 25. 5 (the whole) The Base: 13. 5 Wide x 9 Deep The stuffed and mounted White or Umbrella Cockatoo, Cacatua alba, in good overall condition, perched amidst a well executed naturalistic setting with butterflies, flora and fauna, under a good quality late Victorian glass dome with gold velvet lining on a rectangular base and raised on an ebonised plinth with gold rope twist