A Scarce & Early Folk Magic Specimen of a Mummified Dog in Case c.1700-1800 antiques but with the opening of

but with the opening of the new Paris Jardin des Plantes zoo and the Ménagerie du Jardin des plantes

This box has obvious signs of use as there are old scratches and the paintwork has naturally distressed in the appropriate areas with a superb craquelure with some heat related wear to the reverse

It stands well enough but if placing in a area where there are children or pets it would need securing as the base is small

The middle aged gentleman posed in his occupation as a barrister and his good lady wife are almost certainly man and wife

A Scarce & Early Folk Magic Specimen of a Mummified Dog in Case c.1700-1800 antiques but with the opening ofOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Probably Early 18thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1700 1800Height: 17Width: 23Depth: 6. 5The well preserved mummified or dried specimen of a small breed of dog with fully intact and with teeth, having been discovered in the roof of a Tudor house in Suffolk, and now presented in a good contemporary glazed box frame with dark blue paper backing and held with invisible twine, the whole surviving from the early eighteenth century