A marine specimen: a Sickle pomfret fish, Italy 1870.

Italy second half 19th century

2300 Euro

Taxidermy marine natural Wunderkammer specimen, embalmed sickle pomfret (Familia: Bramidae. Genus: Taractichthys. Species: Steindachneri). The Specimen is stuffed and mounted over a base that rotates 360 degrees on its own axis and tilts and locked with a double-wing brass hinge. The rotating base is in gray-green lacquered wood. Eyes in glass paste. Italy circa 1870.

23” – 59 CM H 24” – 60 CM L 8” – 20 CM D

REF: M5496

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