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

each having brass bail handles

The specimen panels are separated with chevron inlay of ebony & ivory inset into silver wire borders

The head surmounted with an extended Ushnisha suggesting Tibetan or Burmese origin

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