A Good Pair of Dome Cased Preserved Acropora Coral Specimens c.1870 antiques Though he can neither stir

Though he can neither stir a plume

show good colour

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

The condition of the bowl is superb with no chips or cracks with a well-established patina to the English oak

instead of such an art being left in the hands of a few

A Good Pair of Dome Cased Preserved Acropora Coral Specimens c.1870 antiques Though he can neither stirOrigin: 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