Peruvian Wood Ancyluris Formasissima

Small butterfly shows blue tips and red patches like painted signs.

This ancyluris formasissima is from Peru, and is contemporary. It is wood & glass. Some of the earliest insect collections appeared around the 17th century in European curiosity cabinets, displayed beside exotic plants and prehistoric fossils, which were forerunners of modern day institutions. Compact butterfly with sky blue wing tips, white bands, and big orange-red patches near the body on a dark, narrow body. A rough, grainy black frame surrounds it, with a grey backdrop behind. It is 3.75 inches wide, 2 deep and 4.25 high.

Small, loud, and perfectly sure of its palette.