A Charming & Unusual Pair of Early 19thC Continental Appliqué Paper Pictures In The Form of Caged African Parrots c.1800-25 sub-Curios and buckle clasps

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a corner of the world that held rich possibility in yet undocumented bird species

The use of reliquaries became an important part of Christian practices from at least the 4th century and provided a means of protecting and displaying relics

using their scimitar-shaped horns

and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day

A Charming & Unusual Pair of Early 19thC Continental Appliqué Paper Pictures In The Form of Caged African Parrots c.1800-25 sub-Curios and buckle claspsOrigin: Probably Italian Period: Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1800 25 Width: 9. 75 Height: 15. 5 Depth: 1. 25 (each) The beautiful, and possibly unique, pair of opposing paper appliqu pictures of African parrots, each hand coloured in paper and perching on water colour gouache branches, the birds behind gilded threads mimicking the bars of a cage, each being glazed and with faux leather borders and surviving from the first