A Good Pair of Dome Cased Preserved Acropora Coral Specimens c.1870 antiques Lord Mowbray in William Beckfords

Lord Mowbray in William Beckfords bloodline so the name on the back of the canvas may well be a reference to this decendent

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

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

Though he can neither stir a plume

A Good Pair of Dome Cased Preserved Acropora Coral Specimens c.1870 antiques Lord Mowbray in William BeckfordsOrigin: 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