A RARE PAIR OF OAK ZOOMORPHIC COLUMN OR SARCOPHAGUS SUPPORTS

A RARE PAIR OF OAK ZOOMORPHIC COLUMN OR SARCOPHAGUS SUPPORTS

PERHAPS 13TH OR 14TH CENTURY

each carved as a couchant mythical beast with a male human head with a Celtic style thin moustache and a lion's body beside a staff or stile socket, with residual painted decoration (2)

37cm high, 53.5cm long, 24.5cm wide

Catalogue Note

See Victoria & Albert Museum, acc. no. 324A-1889 for a marble example of comparable form dated to c.1200.