Has writing all over the porcelain / ceramic head saying:
Entered at Stationers Hall

Despite for liquids
alimentiveness
Desire for soliols
Executiveness
Destructiveness
Extermination
Acquisitiveness
Secretiveness
Constructiveness
Degience
Love of Sex
Cautiousness
Sublimitiy
Ideality
Humor
Time
Order
Calculation
Exploration
Literary
observing knoewing faculties
Intuitive
Reasoning reflective faculties
Criticism
Human Nature
Benevolence
Perfecting Group
Selfish Prophenstities
Moral and Religious Sentiments
Selfish Sentiments
Domestic Propenstities
Love of Children
Parental Love
Degence
Courage
Marriage
Sociability
Gregariousness
and much more...

Also on the back at bottom says:
For thirty years I have studied Crania and living heads from all parts of the
world and have found in every instance
that there is a perfect correspondence between
the conformation of the healthy skull of an individual
and his known characteristics.

To make my observations available I have prepared a
bust of superior form and market the divisions of
the Organs in accordance with my researches and varies
experience.
L. N. Fowler
Ludagate Circus Londond

Crackled antiqued finish with flow blue
text on this handsome and very popular replica Phrenology Head Bust Statue
(13.25" tall by 6" deep by 6.5" wide)
History of Phrenology: Phrenology is the science which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology of the skull. It is a very ancient object of study. The first philosopher to locate mental faculties in the head was in fact Aristoteles. Several typologies have been defined, linking physionomy with character. The study of the face, physiognomony, has been particularly studied by the 18th century Swiss author Lavater. Gall and the birth of modern Phrenology The real scientific Phrenology, established a direct link between the morphology of the skull and the human character, was discovered by the Austrian Franz Josef GALL (1758-1828). Dr. Gall was one of the first to consider the brain as the home or place of all mental activities. His main work: The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in General, and of the Brain in Particular, Dr. Gall makes the following statement in regard to the principles on which he based his works: That moral and intellectual faculties are innate That their exercise or manifestation depends on organisation That the brain is the organ of all the propensities, sentiments and faculties That the brain is composed of many particular organs as there are propensities, sentiments and faculties which differ essentially from each other. That the form of the head or cranium represents the form of the brain, and thus reflects the relative development of the brain organs. These statements can be considered as the basic laws on which the science of Phrenology has been built. Through careful observation and extensive experimental measurements, Gall was able to link aspects of character, called faculties, to precise brain locations One of the most important collaborators of Gall was Johann SPURZHEIM (1776-1832), who successfully disseminated Phrenology The American brothers Lorenzo Niles FOWLER (1811-1896) and Orson S. FOWLER (1809-1887) were the leading Phrenologists of their time. Lorenzo spent much of his life in England where he set up the famous Phrenological publishing house of L.N Fowler & Co. Victorian Phrenology In the early 19th century, Phrenology gained quite rapidly growing interest. Some scrupuless people did however abuse the science for commercial purposes, and the Victorian period saw the emergence of Phrenological parlours which were closer to astrology than real science. Unfortunately, those con-men have done a lot to stain the image of Phrenology as a real science, and their bad influence lives up to today.