Lot Essay
The Wellcome catalogue describes two similar heads on p. 287, items 9 and 10, and illustrates them as fig. 477.
Details
A ceramic phrenological head,
by L.N. Fowler, glazed, with blue banding and citation at the rear, the cranium marked with the areas of the sentiments -- 11½in. (29cm.) high
See Illustration
by L.N. Fowler, glazed, with blue banding and citation at the rear, the cranium marked with the areas of the sentiments -- 11½in. (29cm.) high
See Illustration
Literature
J.K. Crellin Medical Ceramics A Catalogue of the English and Dutch Collections in the Museum of The Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine (London, 1969)