A Fine 19thC Ivory Carved & Ebony Framed Corpus Christi sub-Antiques Images in this genre are

Images in this genre are sometimes called "The Deposition

our intelligent guess as to Mr Edmund Heap’s identity is that he was born in 1887 in Burnley

This figurehead relic would have been positioned in the forecastle

Cast by Mueller & Co of Chattanooga Tennessee and dated to 1961

this superb collaborative work was designed to help artists essentially understand the body's mass and volume

A Fine 19thC Ivory Carved & Ebony Framed Corpus Christi sub-Antiques Images in this genre areOrigin: English Period: Mid Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: 1860 80 Height: 16. 75 inches Width: 10 inches Depth: 1. 5 inches The Figure: 5. 5 inches The high quality nineteenth century three piece Corpus Christi, intricately carved in ivory, mounted on an ebonised cross with a bone Christian cross below, the whole on an aubergine maroon coloured velvet ground and framed within a Gothic lancet shaped ebonised ripple moulded niche