Kendall House Antiques Ltd. has dated this piece to the Victorian era.
Taxidermy is extremely hard to find like this today, and yet so typical of what would have hung in the fashionable Victorian parlor, a wonder of the natural world, where the likes would have been unseen before.
This famous taxidermy firm ran for nearly 80 years, and was founded around 1844 by James Gardner, and continued by his son, James Gardner (the trade label to the rear of this case gives the address as “52 High Holborn &29, London” and states “late 426 Oxford Street London”. The firm held Royal Warrants for Her Majesty Queen Victoria, The Royal Families of England and France plus many more notable clients. The firms place as one of the great British taxidermists is fully deserved.
For more information on this firm see:
History of British Taxidermy by C. Frost, published 1987
A History of Taxidermy: by P Morris published 2011
Kendall House Antiques Ltd. has dated this piece to the Victorian era.
Kendall house antiques a traditional shop in the north cotswold’s market town of chipping campden.
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Victorian Taxidermy Wall Dome by James Gardner London Circa 1875
