A Beautifully Carved Early 18thC Portland Stone Bust of a Young Woman sub-Curios the ring necked parakeet has

the ring necked parakeet has long been housed in his rather opulent ebonised and parcel gilt case with naturalistic setting

and as far as Britanny and Scotland

Jones' Electric Theatre and Chipperfield's Electrograph

which held as tenets an appreciation of nature

A Beautifully Carved Early 18thC Portland Stone Bust of a Young Woman sub-Curios the ring necked parakeet hasOrigin: English Period: Early Eighteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1720 1740 Height: 21 inches Width 10 inches Depth: 16 inches In one piece with backstrut, the section projecting on a later base of cement, the carved Portland stone (limestone) bust of a young woman in three quarter relief, wearing a headscarf, her hair centrally parted and arranged in two braids survives from the first half of the eighteenth century. Wonderfully weathered,