Wesley Bone

A perfect example of early English folk art. A cow or horse vertebra carved with the likeness of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church of England, was used either as an object of veneration and worship in a country house or as a work to mock the Methodist leader. Purchased from a collector who had only amassed three of these pieces after a lifetime of searching. A very rare and interesting piece of early English folk art, with a truly odd shape.