Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Mid-Century Modern 750 GBP ($5

750 GBP ($5

This walnut ink drawing can be clearly seen in some of the thinly painted areas of his work

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the urns having circular socle bases and raised on square ormolu plinths

the vases are raised on the original mahogany stands and marked to the base with a twin red character mark

Pair Italian Still Life Trompe-l'œil Oil Paintings Dead Birds Firenze Italy by Michelangelo Meucci, 1873 Mid-Century Modern 750 GBP ($5A 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