Monkey Island

San Francisco Zoo’s historic Monkey Island exhibit gets a dedicated treatment here through custom, gold-tone photo-etched brass. Open structural cutouts outline the enclosure while rendering slender tree branches and the curved tails of restless primates. I like how the flat metal captures the active, climbing posture of the animals without making the piece feel heavy.

• Subject: Custom Pieces
• Category: Single Species Portraits
• Form: Other
• Finish: Gold Plated
• Rarity: unseen
• Tags: Landscape
• Reference: CST-02

Monkey Island is a vintage Wild Bryde other featuring custom pieces. This entry in the Wild Bryde Unofficial Collectors Guide documents the piece with photographs and collector notes for identification.