A PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY CASED TIGER HEADS BY GEORGE F. BUTT, contained in simulated bamboo cases, raised on mahogany pedestals, with label 'Geo. F. Butt & Co. Naturalists & Furriers to the Royal Family, 49 Wigmore Street, London, W'
Organic material, bamboo, glass
70.5 x 58 x 64 cm each
27 3/4 x 22 7/8 x 25 1/4 in each
pedestal 99.5 x 53 x 70 cm
27 3/4 x 22 7/8 x 25 1/4 in each
pedestal 99.5 x 53 x 70 cm
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A PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY CASED TIGER HEADS BY GEORGE F. BUTT, contained in simulated bamboo cases, raised on mahogany pedestals, with label 'Geo. F. Butt & Co. Naturalists & Furriers to the Royal Family, 49 Wigmore Street, London, W' The cases 70.5cm high, 58.5cm deep, 64cm wide; the pedestals 99.5cm high, 53cm deep, 70cm wide George Frederick Butt served first as head taxidermist and later as manager to his brother-in-law Edwin Ward, who operated from 49 Wigmore Street, London. Edwin was the eldest son of Rowland Ward (1848–1912), the pre-eminent London taxidermist renowned for his lifelike mountings of big game and his celebrated animal furniture. Following Edwin’s retirement in 1879, Butt continued the Wigmore Street business under the Ward name, much to the displeasure of Rowland Ward, who ultimately bought him out. Examples signed by Butt under his own name date to the post buy-out period, though he remained at Wigmore Street until circa 1904, after which he relocated to Edgware Road. He was ‘Naturalist to the Royal Family’ and produced animal furniture in the similar manner as Ward. Among his notable commissions was an upright standing bear mounted as a dumb waiter for the Prince of Wales, referenced in William G. Fitzgerald’s 1895 The Strand Magazine article on ‘Animal Furniture’, a rare contemporary account of this distinctive Victorian taste in decorative art.