Lot 61
A LATE VICTORIAN CASED PAIR OF TAXIDERMY PEREGRINE FALCONS (FALCO PEREGRINUS)
BY W. A. MACLEAY & SON, CHURCH STREET, INVERNESS, SCOTLAND
£756
Scottish Works of Art & Whisky
Auction: 17 August 2022 at 11:00 BST
Description
a high quality cased pair of Peregrine Falcons, male and female, both stood atop painted and lichen encrusted faux rock boulders, above moss and pebble covered ground work, amidst a natural setting of tall grasses and fauna, set against a graduated pale blue painted back drop, enclosed within a typical period ebonised three-glass table display case, bearing original full paper trade label to interior lower right
Dimensions
68cm by 24.5cm by 63.5cm
