Two Late 19thC German Anatomical Models of Tongues by Bock Steger c.1890 sub-Curios The beautifully preserved female teal

The beautifully preserved female teal duck (Anas Crecca) the specimen set upon a typical Duncan wooden block and housed within a beautiful scientific sparse museum case

inspired by the old masters of the fourteenth to seventeenth century

the whole with an attractive patination of rusting and wear to the black paint

though they have some fissures and nibbled losses

Perfect for bloomers

Two Late 19thC German Anatomical Models of Tongues by Bock Steger c.1890 sub-Curios The beautifully preserved female tealOrigin: GermanPeriod: Late 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890Height: 3. 75Width: 8Depth: 4. 5 (each)The cast and moulded polychrome painted didactic models of tongues, one having the brass plate for Bock Steger Lips, each in plaster and being hand painted and surviving from late nineteenth century Germany. There is some chipping to the paint work though overall, they remain intact and complete; please refer to the photographs for a full visual