Golden pheasant
Category
Natural History / Taxidermy
Date
Unknown
Materials
Display case of two taxidermy birds.
Measurements
600 x 1007 x 270 mm
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1271416.1
Summary
Taxidermy display case containing a golden pheasant. Large pheasant-type game bird with a long tail and ruff spread out in a glass case with smaller female pheasant-type bird.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust with Shugborough’s park and contents of the state rooms, in part-payment of death-duties to the Treasury, following the death of Thomas, 4th Earl of Lichfield (1883 - 1960).