Vintage Dragonfly Wall Clock familiar-bat Good for someone who collects

Good for someone who collects insect prints and pressed specimens

with painted stars filling the gaps between

over a near-black indigo ground flecked with gold

since the contrast does most of the work in low light

A wolf's head takes up most of the black dial

Vintage Dragonfly Wall Clock familiar-bat Good for someone who collectsThe body runs down to six. A dragonfly is set dead centre with its four wings stretched out flat, the veining fine enough to read across the room and the membranes shading from teal to old gold. Its segmented body drops straight down the dial and finishes in a point near the bottom. Behind it a pale panel is ruled into faint squares like graph paper, and the outer face is mottled cream, rust and verdigris with heavy black Roman numerals over it. The