A Wonderful Pair of Late 19thC Taxidermy African Nile Crocodiles c.1900

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A Wonderful Pair of Late 19thC Taxidermy African Nile Crocodiles c.1900Origin: African Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 The Larger: 58 wide x 15 deep x 16 high The Smaller: 40 wide x 13 deep x 9 high The full mount juvenile African nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus), one larger, both being cord sewn, with glass eyes, in snarling poses with full sets of teeth, and lustrous thick skin, surviving from the turn of the nineteenth century. The crocodiles are presented in varying condition. One is in

to a prosperous family of local businessmen

Period: Edo

there is however some slight fraying to one side

dating this flag to that period

Indigo blue

showing a well realised head and shoulders portrait on a burnt umber ground of a young student with dense chestnut beard in academic attire consisting of black robe and tudor bonnet type hat

The plinth shaped case with overhanging reeded cornice

the space giving the tapestry a better sense of scale and proportion

Height: 59

Engraved by Henry Landseer depicts the various muscles of the lower leg and ankle

Similar in size to a vesta case

especially as thick as this example

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