A Good Pair of Dome Cased Preserved Acropora Coral Specimens c.1870 antiques Painted in oils on board

Painted in oils on board in the impressionist style and presented in a gadrooned and gilded modern frame with signature lower left

He met with little success

the male and female interlocking iron parts joining to make the whole

With many families reeling from the financial devastation of The Great Depression

which would have travelled considerably with its owner

A Good Pair of Dome Cased Preserved Acropora Coral Specimens c.1870 antiques Painted in oils on boardOrigin: English with the Specimens Indo Pacific AtlanticPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1860 701: 9. 5 high x 9. 5 diameter2: 8 high x 9 diameterThe Victorian preserved coral displays, showing the twig like tubular appressed clustered Acropora coral specimens, the first example with a large central specimen with fan corals to the base, beneath an original compressed glass circular dome with rope twist border on circular ebonised