Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - The Age of Oak - 14th January 2025
Lot 125
A RARE PAIR OF OAK ZOOMORPHIC COLUMN OR SARCOPHAGUS SUPPORTS
Estimate £5,000 - £8,000 | Hammer £6300
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Description
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.