Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 3rd October 2024
Lot 854
λ A MAHOGANY COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF WORLD BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS
Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £1764
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Description
λ A MAHOGANY COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF WORLD BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS
20TH CENTURY
with a glazed door enclosing fifteen glass topped drawers with a variety of specimens including: swallowtails, morphos, Indian swallowtails, leaf butterfly, Bath whites, Death's Head Hawk, lappet, heliconias, Conepteryx, bird wings, owl butterfly, Atlas moths, monarchs and others, some drawers with collecting data
102.3cm high, 55cm wide, 42cm 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.