Out, Out, Brief Candle; Unique sub-Religion & Relics and signed and dated lower

and signed and dated lower right J

achingly beautiful

Height: 30" or 12" at seat

meaning rough or stony settlement

Out, Out, Brief Candle; Unique sub-Religion & Relics and signed and dated lowerOrigin: EnglishPeriod: 19thC & 21stCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1800 1900 & c. 2021Height: 13Width: 6. 5Depth: 7. 5 (all at extremities)The beautifully preserved and mounted barn owl (Tyto alba) specimen*, perched with poise upon a nineteenth century period fragmentary human skull, the whole a sculptural concoction surviving from the nineteenth and twenty first centuries.Out out brief candle! Lifes but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and