A pair of solid cast brass mallards — not hollow, not plated — each finely detailed with overlapping wing feathers rendered in a crisp herringbone texture, heads turned in mirrored profile so the two rest naturally nose to tail. The weight tells the story here: substantial, cool, and dense in hand, the mark of true cast brass rather than the lighter brass-plated spelter that’s far more common in this category.
Retains an original Liberty House price sticker to the underside, along with a “Made in Taiwan” stamp — both left intact as provenance markers of the piece’s mid-century department store lineage. The surface carries a warm, honeyed patina with deeper burnishing at the high points, original and unpolished.
A classic of the brass-animal genre that populated well-appointed interiors from the 1960s through the 80s — equally at home flanking a stack of books or holding court alone on a mantel.
