Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Recently Added to the center is a

to the center is a gilt bronze reticulated plaque centered within a carved & pierced frieze

75" long X 17

to each side are 'grotesques' carved as the head of monks

There are four dials on the top of the lid and they are repeated on each of the four sides

a Buddhist/Hindu spiritual retreat for yoga & meditation

Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Recently Added to the center is 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