"The Brain In All Its Forms Didactics 19th...auzoux Bock-steger Or Tramond"
The brain, which can be dismantled into 4 parts, is made of painted plaster. It contains the numbers corresponding to a lexicon that students must have had at the time. It rests on a papier-mâché bed that serves as a skull. Originally polychromed, the base bears witness to the uses of yesteryear. Bock Steger Lips produced models at the same time as the Auzoux and Tramond companies, but worked mainly in plaster. This model dates from around 1880. Traces of school labels are still legible. Auzoux, Tramond and Bock, associated with Steger (who worked in Leipzig), were pioneers in the teaching of all anatomies. These objects are becoming rare...