A Good Pair of Dome Cased Preserved Acropora Coral Specimens c.1870 sub-Art & Sculpture with the three-dimensional effect that

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Many households would not do without one of these chests as few homes had a source of heat within the bedroom

each of riveted construction and with three finials to each

the high galleried top over an arrangement of four graduated drawers

A Good Pair of Dome Cased Preserved Acropora Coral Specimens c.1870 sub-Art & Sculpture with the three-dimensional effect thatOrigin: 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