Show GROTESQUE MEDIEVAL WOOD CARVINGS OWNED BY SALT LAKER K iiI p M 1 t 5 1 10 0 i P v I S 5 I WM I S y S e S. S 4 r- r S S I S S tc r S b J S 4 1 S t ti S y s 's r g c 7 k L k 1 iA t S V f fC r C 4 4 Wood carvings of great antiquity valuable through association with memorable English historical events are owned by L. L Jones 1584 Harrison avenue The reverse views of the relics portray in detail the work of the unknown carver Wentworth Sones Purchased Valuable Thirteenth Thirteenth Thir Century Art rt Objects for foi Six Six Pence in England By y HARRY BAGLEY Two preserved examples ex- ex amples of oC medieval art alt carved by byan byan an unknown woodworker of the thirteenth century are owned by L L. Jones 1584 Harrison avenue The carvings originally graced tIme choir stalls at Christ church priory England which was built In the thirteenth century under under un- un der the of William II Mr Jones acqUired the grotesque figures more than twenty years a agO while a resident of Bournemouth A Achild child had unearthed the two carved bits of oC wood In the crypts beneath the choir stall of oC the ancient priory mind md immediately walked to the street and started hawking his newly new new- ly Iy found wares The youngster experienced ex- ex d difficulty in finding a buyer Mr Jones chanced along however and offered a sixpence for forthe forthe the two carvings an offer that was accepted It was the best i I ever made lii In Mr Jones stated addition to their value through h their association with memorable ble events In English history I believES believe the pieces are worth at least east 2000 each S V VOne One of the carvings a apall pall pair of grotesque web footed monsters monsters mon mon- ot of a sort that intrigued the Imagination o of artists of the middie mid mid- die Ile ages The second represents a hoofed cloven tempter whispering I in the eat of a cowed monkS monk Cleavage through the Wooden block has robbed the fragment ofa or of ora a portion of tIme the monks monk's figure yet et sufficient of the figure remains to convey the originators originator's idea ideH I Mr Ir Jones declares that the fragments frag- frag meats ments Were probably chopped from the choir stalls of the church direction of Thomas Cromwell a henchman of Cardinal Inthe in inthe the of King Henry VIII The The carvings are regarded as authentic mementoes or of the religious ties that accompanied the reformation reforma- reforma tion when a general destruction of every everything thinS thinS' of a papist nature was attempted The figures probably fell teU before the ax because they reg ardd as sa |