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

Lot 856

λ A PINE COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £479

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Description

λ A PINE COLLECTOR'S CABINET OF BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

MAINLY BRITISH, 20TH CENTURY

the glazed door enclosing ten glass topped drawers with a variety of specimens including: five spot burnet, hawks head moths including Death's Head, hummingbird, lesser elephant and pine, Clifden nonpareil, cream spot tiger, virgin tiger moth, black veined white butterflies, wood white, Bath white, clouded yellow, small copper, apollo, tiger swallowtail, comma and others

70.5cm high, 49.5cm wide, 31.7cm 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.