A Taxidermy Study of a Barn Owl in a Victorian Glass Terrarium

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A Taxidermy Study of a Barn Owl in a Victorian Glass TerrariumOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Edwardian & Later Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1890 1910 Height: 18 inches (at maximum) Base Diameter: 11 inches The well preserved and mounted adult barn owl (Tyto alba) specimen, its gaze cast downward, housed in an unusual decagon leaded glass terrarium on a naturalistic setting of a log, grasses, stones and a peacock butterfly specimen, surviving from the Victorian period and later. My Body is a Cage; Arcade

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