Having fan shaped bowls to slender stems each terminating in a red or black painted wood finial in the shape of a card suit
the swirling ebony and sea foam green backgrounds have a misty and atmospheric feel and the studies themselves are well proportioned
“Issued by the Royal Society for The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
The flag is loose to one end where it has become detached from the old staple
wearing necklaces and showing their original charcoal green paint under mantle shelf pediments
Bristol Zoological Gardens: A Group of Twenty-Six Mid 20thC Enclosure Plaques c.1940-60 sub-Art & Sculpture Having fan shaped bowls toOrigin: English Period: Mid 20thC Provenance: Bristol Zoological Gardens, Bristol, England Date: c. 1940 60 The Larger: 6 wide x 3 high The Smaller: 6 wide x 1. 5 high Priced individually, the collection of twenty six original mid twentieth century animal enclosure plaque signs, the earliest being 1946 and latest 1955, each in jet black with yellow lettering or white with red lettering, imprinted with the animal's name, details and species in Latin,