A Rare c.1900 Cased Taxidermy Study of a Rhesus Macaque Monkey sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Scarlet Tiger

Scarlet Tiger

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

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

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A Rare c.1900 Cased Taxidermy Study of a Rhesus Macaque Monkey sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Scarlet TigerOrigin: 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