Out, Out, Brief Candle; Unique

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Object Description

The beautifully preserved and mounted barn owl (Tyto alba) specimen*, perched with poise upon a nineteenth century period fragmentary human skull, the whole a sculptural concoction surviving from the nineteenth and twenty first centuries.

Object History

Unknown.

Object Literature

“Out out brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”

Excerpt from Macbeth Act V Scene V

*Provided with A10 certificate Article 10

Object Condition

Good.

Object Details

Dealer Opening Times

By appointment only.

Dealer Contact

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+44 (0)1767 640995
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+44 (0)7729 213013
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Dealer Location

The Onion Barn
Shoe Cottage
15 High Street
Blunham
Bedfordshire
MK44 3NL

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