A FRENCH PAPIER MACHE AND PAINTED WOOD DIDACTIC MODEL OF A HORSE FETLOCK
Lot 43

A FRENCH PAPIER MACHE AND PAINTED WOOD DIDACTIC MODEL OF A HORSE FETLOCK

CIRCA 1881, BY MAISON AUZOUX

Closed5 September 2013

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GBP 3,250

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A FRENCH PAPIER MACHE AND PAINTED WOOD DIDACTIC MODEL OF A HORSE FETLOCK
CIRCA 1881, BY MAISON AUZOUX
With applied labels, showing muscles and veins, the top with an indistinct ink handwritten label dated 1881 and signed 'Anatomic Clastique du Dr.Auzoux'
12¼ in. (31 cm.) high

Specialist note

Louis Thomas Jerome Auzoux (1797-1880) was a French anatomist and naturalist. Louis Auzoux obtained a medical degree in 1818. In 1820 he visited the papier-mache workshop of Francois Ameline and later set up his own business making human and veterinary anatomical models in Normandy. This traded as Maison Auzoux. Auzoux also made large scale zoological and botanical models for educational use. The models were called "anatomy clastique" because they could be taken apart to show the full structure such as this lot.