Vintage Butterfly Wall Art Butterfly Metal Sign Animal Familiar Home Decor Size:8x12 inch tail curled

tail curled

A sphynx cat's head sits front and centre

Cathedral gargoyles are cut from stone

Everything else sits in gold and grey

all worked in the same aged copper-brown with heavy shadow behind each element so the picture appears to sit several layers deep

Vintage Butterfly Wall Art Butterfly Metal Sign Animal Familiar Home Decor Size:8x12 inch tail curledOld handwriting behind the wings. A single butterfly is set open winged across what looks like a page torn from an old ledger: brown ink in a looping hand, ruled columns, foxing and water stains. The upper wings are amber and orange with black bars and slate blue tips; the lower pair taper away into long dark tails. Rust coloured flakes and drips are scattered over the paper as though the surface had aged badly in a damp room. Some of the writing