Pheasant
Category
Natural History / Taxidermy
Date
Unknown
Materials
A handheld firescreen with mounted taxidermy pheasant
Measurements
790 x 380 x 180 mm
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 461421
Summary
A stuffed male pheasant mounted as a handheld lady's fan firescreen. The back portion of the pheasant is absent and the tail and wing feathers are mounted on a flat back with a turned wooden handle so as to form a decorative fan shape. The reverse is backed with red velvet.
Provenance
An item from the Llanerchaeron collection, left to the National Trust in the will of John Powell Ponsonby Lewes in 1989