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Franz Josef Steger and Carl Ernst Boc, Leipzig, Germany, 19th century | Pair of Didactic Panels Depicting Scarabs

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Lot Details

Description

Franz Josef Steger and Carl Ernst Boc

Leipzig, Germany, 19th century

Pair of Didactic Panels Depicting Scarabs

inset with copper maker's label 'BOCK STEGER LIPS'

scagliola, slate

80.5cm. high, 60cm. wide; 2ft. 7¾in., 1ft. 11¾in.

Made circa 1850.

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For examples which relate to lots 31, 32, 33 and 39, see Lucy Spencer, 'The artist’s knife: The art and science of plaster anatomical models at the Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology', Public History research project, Master in Public History, Monash University, 2005.

The German company Bock-Steger was a partnership between pathological anatomist Carl Ernst Bock (1809-1874) and Franz Josef Steger who, in close collaboration with the University of Leipzig, produced a range of sculpted and cast anatomical models to be used in medical schools.

According to Spencer (2005, p.35) "Franz Josef Steger continued his association with the university upon Bock’s death to form a thirty-year partnership with Wilhelm His. The professional output of the Leipzig workshop in volume and variety of anatomical models attest to the skill and ingenuity of Steger. Producing models in plaster, porcelain and wax, Steger is known to have even enquired into the early use of plastics, although it is the plaster preparations for which he is best known".