Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Mid-Century Modern and the Walker Art Center

and the Walker Art Center

the underside of the case with a geometric niello design with a central engraved open cartouche that is free from an engraved monogram or name

The elephant having a Gu-form candleholder

Each figure is very finely carved in traditional dress and engraved with polychrome decoration

The bowl is in good condition

Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Mid-Century Modern and the Walker Art CenterA 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