Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 3rd October 2024

Lot 848

A MAHOGANY SIX DRAWER COLLECTOR'S CABINET

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £227

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Description

A MAHOGANY SIX DRAWER COLLECTOR'S CABINET

LATE 19TH CENTURY

with six glass topped drawers containing dragonflies, damselflies, antlions, tarantulas, locusts, beetles, imperial scorpion, isometric scorpion, praying mantis, cricket and other insects

41.5cm high, 38cm wide, 22.4cm deep

Provenance

Collected by Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009) in the first half of the 20th century and displayed at Exbury House, Hampshire.

The Trustees of Exbury House.

We are grateful to Simon Moore M.I.Sc.T., A.C.R. from Natural History Conservation for his assistance cataloguing the present work.