A Good Quality Victorian Dome Cased Taxidermy White Cockatoo c.1880 sub-Curios his feet turn out

his feet turn out

though the drawer can still be opened and closed OK

Whale bone was ideally suited for the task

E” survives from the middle of the nineteenth century and is contemporary with the murders of Jack the Ripper of 1888

A Good Quality Victorian Dome Cased Taxidermy White Cockatoo c.1880 sub-Curios his feet turn outOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Height: 25. 5 (the whole) The Base: 13. 5 Wide x 9 Deep The stuffed and mounted White or Umbrella Cockatoo, Cacatua alba, in good overall condition, perched amidst a well executed naturalistic setting with butterflies, flora and fauna, under a good quality late Victorian glass dome with gold velvet lining on a rectangular base and raised on an ebonised plinth with gold rope twist