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Auction House:
Sotheby's
Number of lots recorded:8
Lots with images:8
Prices available:8
Category:
Natural History
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** A mounted Mosasaur (Platecarpus ictericus) skull, late Cretaceous Period, Niobrara Formation, Kansas, mounted on a black enamelled metal stand, within a glazed display case. skull 47 x 46 x 25 cm, glazed case 55.5 cm high, 60 cm wide, 39.5 cm deep, plinth… ***
*** An early Australian platypus rug, 19th century, 32 pelts, 125 cm x 95 cm pelts, 134 cm x 104 cm felt ***
*** A pair of carved and pierced mother-of-pearl shells, circa 1900, each carved with a woman and child reading in a garden setting with bamboo, flowering plants and trees on a pierced cloud scroll ground, wood stands, (4), 22.5 cm wide ***
*** A jade carving, Qing Dynasty, of two badgers, carved head to tail, one biting the hind leg of the other, the whitish stone with a slight area of the russet skin on one side 4.3 cm. Other Notes: two badgers (shuanghuan) means couple rejoicing or enjoying… ***
*** An oval diorama, late 19th century depicting two birds in undergrowth with painted backdrop of trees and lake, glass mount and carved oak frame 48 cm x 88 cm ***
*** Two taxidermy birds, one a heron and the other a pheasant;. Height 48 cm. Height 40 cm. (2) ***
*** Two oval Dioramas, late 19th century one depicting four birds on rocky outcrop with painted landscape behind, the second of two water fowl with lake scene backdrop, both with glass mounts and timber frames 48 x 88 cm ***
*** A pair of mother of pearl shells, each carved and pierced with a scene of a dignitary and maiden in a garden setting, wood stands, each 18 cm wide ***