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I remeber seeing the Antiques Road show a few years back when one of the experts was Showing off the carved cornicing of the Stately Home the show was coming from. This cornicing had lots of flora, forna and wildlife carved into it including incects - I clearly remember a dragonfly and beetles were represented. I dont suppose this really counts as insects are not the priciple subject. Shame I can't rember which stately home it was though.
The Chinese use to carve small, very intricately insects from ivory, crickets and beetles. They may have been more of a good luck symbol than a work of art although they were wokd of art themselves.
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