A Fine Victorian Taxidermy Butterfly-Mounted Cheval Fire Screen c.1880; Ex Pitt Rivers Museum antiques Art Nouveau is like the

Art Nouveau is like the baroque style in that it is theatrical and often borrows the principle asymmetry from Japanese art

I don’t remember

The second vessel would have held the compound Mistura Sennas Com-posita or more famously Black Draught

added around 1913

each with Japanese characters

A Fine Victorian Taxidermy Butterfly-Mounted Cheval Fire Screen c.1880; Ex Pitt Rivers Museum antiques Art Nouveau is like theOrigin: 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