A Good Large Upper Section of a 19thC Male Lion’s Skull sub-Antiques The more familiar Shooting Galleries

The more familiar Shooting Galleries

This charming black toleware box still has a heady aroma

which was exhibiting at the Great Exhibition of 1851

the full script reads:

The word vitriol derives from the Latin vitreus

A Good Large Upper Section of a 19thC Male Lion’s Skull sub-Antiques The more familiar Shooting GalleriesOrigin: African Period: Mid Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 5. 5 inches (at maximum) Width: 9. 5 inches (at maximum) Length: 14 inches (at maximum) The large cranium of an African male lion (Panthera Leo) skull with deep eye sockets and nasal cavities, surviving from the latter half of the nineteenth century. The condition of the whole is good with a well aged patination and ivory hue making the skull very tactile.