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Kittens that drink tea and toads that play leapfrog: - Victorian taxidermist Potter exhibition
dailymail.co.uk ^
| 12 Oct 2010
| Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 10/12/2010 9:58:54 AM PDT by smokingfrog
They look perfectly civilised, carefully passing cups and plates around a large table while enjoying afternoon tea.
But these guests are in fact stuffed kittens in an odd piece of artwork which will make up part of a special one-off exhibition.
It is just one piece of a bizarre Victorian collection of stuffed animals which was broken up and sold around the world seven years ago.
The eccentric world of taxidermist Walter Potter, where stuffed animals mimic human life including toads playing leapfrog and rat police raiding a drinking den, was sold for more than £500,000 in 2003.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: frogs; kittens; rats; taxidermy; walterpotter
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To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
10/12/2010 9:59:42 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.)
To: smokingfrog
Bizarre and more than a little creepy.
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posted on
10/12/2010 10:02:14 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Today, Congress. Tomorrow, the White House!)
To: reagan_fanatic
Yet still better than anything in the Tate.
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posted on
10/12/2010 10:05:51 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
10/12/2010 10:06:10 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Today, Congress. Tomorrow, the White House!)
To: smokingfrog
Well, yes, it is a bit creepy. Cozy and creepy both at once.
But if you compare it to that German “artist” who does stuffed human corpses, you can see how much worse our “art” is now.
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posted on
10/12/2010 10:08:10 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius.)
To: reagan_fanatic
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posted on
10/12/2010 10:08:27 AM PDT
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: reagan_fanatic
sure... everyone’s gonna think it, but you were first.
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posted on
10/12/2010 10:08:29 AM PDT
by
dangus
To: smokingfrog
I wonder if Beatrix Potter was related. Her artwork bears a similarity to his work. I’ll never look at Timmy Tiptoes or Tom Kitten the same again.
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posted on
10/12/2010 10:14:08 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: Dr. Sivana
I was thinking the same thing...?
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posted on
10/12/2010 10:17:44 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.)
To: reagan_fanatic
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posted on
10/12/2010 10:24:52 AM PDT
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: smokingfrog
I don’t think I’ll ping this one, thanks. Poor babies.
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posted on
10/12/2010 10:29:43 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: reagan_fanatic
Very funny! But you just gotta wonder how the “artist” came by his material.
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posted on
10/12/2010 10:30:27 AM PDT
by
pappyone
To: pappyone
I wonder how the poor little things met their untimely deaths!
I love cats but I think this is kinda cute...very weird but kinda cute.
To: smokingfrog
Uhhh, words fail me.
I’ll just finish my afternoon tea.
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posted on
10/12/2010 10:55:51 AM PDT
by
Kitten1
(12/23/1898; 12/25/1901; 3/6/36; 6/25/39; 9/11/55 -- Your sacrifice is not forgotten.)
To: smokingfrog
Uhhh, words fail me.
I’ll just finish my afternoon tea.
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posted on
10/12/2010 10:56:08 AM PDT
by
Kitten1
(12/23/1898; 12/25/1901; 3/6/36; 6/25/39; 9/11/55 -- Your sacrifice is not forgotten.)
To: Kitten1
sorry for the double post.
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posted on
10/12/2010 10:57:18 AM PDT
by
Kitten1
(12/23/1898; 12/25/1901; 3/6/36; 6/25/39; 9/11/55 -- Your sacrifice is not forgotten.)
To: agere_contra
Finally, a good use for cats.
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posted on
10/12/2010 11:01:05 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: reagan_fanatic
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posted on
10/12/2010 11:21:02 AM PDT
by
Sergio
(If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he make a sound?)
To: smokingfrog
Not as creepy as the skeletal tableaux of a somewhat earlier era - infant and fetal skeletons artistically arranged.
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