Large Gilded Wooden Eagle Lectern, 2 Meters

Important lectern with an eagle in gilded and polychrome wood. The gilded eagle with its severe gaze and outstretched wings rests on a large hand-carved sphere. Between its talons the biblical serpent, symbol of evil, is vanquished. It rests on an imposing sculpted and lacquered base. With a wrought iron grip handle articulated to allow lateral pivoting. It has its candle spikes in order to practice the service in the darkness of the religious building. The eagle is the animal symbol of Saint John the Evangelist (called the Eagle of Patmos, from the name of the Greek island where, under house arrest, he wrote his epistles and the book of the Apocalypse). An unusual lectern, probably commissioned by the churchwarden of an important parish under the Ancien Régime. 18th century period.