Lot Essay
The horns are elaborately engraved and etched with drawings in semi-scrimshaw of red and roedeer, grouse, blackgame, ducks, otters, falcons and stalking scenes mounted on an oak shield
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A skull inset with English stag antlers
Details
John Guille Millais (1865-1931)
A skull inset with English stag antlers
signed and dated 'J.G. Millais fecit/1917' (on the skull)
pen and ink
45 x 52 in. (114.4 x 132.1 cm.), overall
A skull inset with English stag antlers
signed and dated 'J.G. Millais fecit/1917' (on the skull)
pen and ink
45 x 52 in. (114.4 x 132.1 cm.), overall
Provenance
with the Tryon Moorland Gallery, London, March 29, 1974.