Lot 591: Sold for £40 hammer
A Two Day Auction, Day One: Silver & Jewellery, Day Two: Art & Antiques to include The Cecil Aldin Collection,
Thursday 24th April 2025 - Friday 25th April 2025
Two Asian carved wooden medical figures, probably Chinese, each depicting a naked female, one laying on her side, 12cm long, the other depicting a naked female in a crouched seated position, 6cm high.
In Asia attitudes of feminine modesty made it improper for a woman to gesture or describe parts of her own body, because of this, when seeing a physician, a woman would indicate medical issues by referring instead to the respective anatomy of the doll.