English Painted Pine Noah's Ark with Animals and Birds, Late Nineteenth Century. The hinged lid painted with red waves, and with a black and white dove perched on the roof holding a leaf in its beak, above the frieze surrounded by a vine border, each side with a pair of doors flanked by windows and with two windows on each end, containing two horses, two mules, two steers, two cows, two goats, two sheep, three pigs, two pairs of cats and a single cat, pair of dogs, three stags, pair of wolves, pair of foxes, pair of unicorns, pair of lions, one dromedary camel, two elephants, one hippopotamus, one squirrel, one mole, seventeen pairs of birds and four single birds, two pairs of small rodent-type animals, Noah and his wife, Shem and his wife, Ham and his wife, and Japheth. (90) Ark: H: 5 in., W: 10.125 in., D: 3.375 in. Stag: H: 2.375 in., W: 2 in., D: 0.5 in. Provenance: Stephen Score, Boston, Massachusetts.

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5 x 10.125 x 3.375 in