A Good Pair of Dome Cased Preserved Acropora Coral Specimens c.1870 antiques which would have travelled considerably

which would have travelled considerably with its owner

now worn beautifully with age

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

Women carried precious little around in their bags: essentially just lipstick

Although both the American and British Enquiries exonerated J

A Good Pair of Dome Cased Preserved Acropora Coral Specimens c.1870 antiques which would have travelled considerablyOrigin: 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