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The mirror plate appears to be original with the backboards in place and a hanging hook integral to it
the reverse with Hō-ō
one hairline crack to the upper left area and minor age-related movement
the whole having elegant tapering slender legs to a hinged sloping writing surface opening to reveal a partitioned interior
A Fine Victorian Taxidermy Butterfly-Mounted Cheval Fire Screen c.1880; Ex Pitt Rivers Museum sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus The mirror plate appears toOrigin: English Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, England Date: c. 1880 Height: 44. 5 Width: 26 (to include balustrade mouldings) Depth: 12. 5 (at legs) The exquisite quality rectangular double sided cheval fire screen or room divider, inset with symmetrical arrangements of exotic butterflies and moths, totalling over five hundred specimens, the collection being glazed to a minimalist museum ivory buff ground
