A Rare c.1900 Cased Taxidermy Study of a Rhesus Macaque Monkey sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles The use of porcupine quill

The use of porcupine quill to decorate boxes for export was common in India in the nineteenth-century

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A tactile and charming money box

After the Second World War he became a professional magician or ‘illusionist moderne’ and toured through Europe and North Africa with his wife Eliane as "Noran & Ph

The pictures are in tired order though prove very decorative and they are wonderfully beguiling and evocative in this untouched condition

A Rare c.1900 Cased Taxidermy Study of a Rhesus Macaque Monkey sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles The use of porcupine quillOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Edwardian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1895 1915 The Case: Depth: 6 inches Width: 15 inches Height: 17. 5 inches The Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) specimen housed within a naturalistic setting of a mock cactus plant amongst reeded grasses with a sky blue painted background, the monkey depicted clenching a monkey nut in its grasp, the whole housed in a black painted and glazed display case surviving from the