Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Sold The lamps stands on a

The lamps stands on a broad circular foot

around the wide mouth of the vase is a band of dark blue sylized floral decoration in the Art Nouveau taste

Below are a pair of carved paneled doors with carved figures to either side

Bigelow was born on a farm in Peru

executed in 1969

Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Sold The lamps stands on aA 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