A Late 19thC German Anatomical Model of a Liver on Stand c.1890 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The expert carving of the

The expert carving of the figure endows hard marble with the appearance of soft flesh and has made the Capitoline Venus one of the most admired and frequently copied of all Roman antiquities

standing on block feet

the whole preserved by Joseph Cullingford of Durham in 1895

pilasters to either flank and raised on carved and gilded lions paw feet and surviving from the second quarter of nineteenth century Italy

showing Anna Margaretha Keslin (nee Hau) (1727-1798) at the age of fifty-nine

A Late 19thC German Anatomical Model of a Liver on Stand c.1890 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The expert carving of theantOrigin: GermanPeriod: Late 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890Height: 10. 5Width: 8. 75Base Diameter: 5. 25The cast and moulded polychrome painted didactic model of the human liver on a turned ebonised stand, the model being plaster and hand painted with detailed numbered regions of the liver, made by either Bock Steger or Marcus Sommer in late nineteenth century Germany. There is some chipping to the paint work, with one larger chip to the top