Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Sculpture The spoon stem having turned

The spoon stem having turned and gilded decoration

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The brim of the helmet also in parcel gilt and finely engraved and pierced

The doors are flanked with a pair of carved winged cherub masks with a carved foliate panel below

Both the lid and base having engraved cartouches inlaid with silver calligraphic inscriptions

Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Sculpture The spoon stem having turnedA fine pair of antique Italian oil on panel paintings Nature Morte of two pairs of gamebirds, in the Trompe l'oeil style, by Michelangelo Meucci (1840 1909), signed & dated Firenze 1873. Trompe l'oeil is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three dimensional space and objects on a two dimensional surface. Trompe l'il, which is most often associated with painting and it tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or