Lot 7

TWO FRENCH CARVED OAK FIGURES OF AN APOTHECARY
CIRCA 1900





Auction: Act Two: Property from The Eccentric Trading Company | Wed 13th May | Lots 1 to 67
Description
copied from the figure from Amiens Cathedral; depicting a bearded man kneeling and grinding a pestle and mortar; each with inscribed initials to the base ‘L W’ with weighing scales and numbered 501 and 502 (2)
Dimensions
33cm high
Footnote
The figure of an apothecary is appears carved as an arm support in the choir stalls, constructed in the early part of the sixteenth century. The apothecary is one of a multitude of individual carved figures representing stories from the Old and New Testaments as well as figures from daily life in Amiens.




