Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) flower pattern There's so much else going

There's so much else going on its not very noticeable

There is a hairline crack that runs partway it nearish the bottom

It measures 7 7/8" tall x 6 3/4" across at widest x 2 5/8" deep and is in very good condition

makes me purely happy

Wonderful Welded Wire Insect (with Spiral Tongue!) flower pattern There's so much else goingAt first I thought perhaps this was meant to be a cicada, but now I think maybe a long tongued fly; really, that long spiral out front is like the rolled tongue of a butterfly, or that of a salamander! Whatever the case, quite a wonderful bug it is, I think, composed of what looks to me a combination of iron, steel and copper wire creatively and dexterously welded together, with a lovely delicacy that comes especially from the treatment of the wings,