Pearlware 'Medici' Lion

Pearlware 'Medici' Lion

Catalogue No: A001

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Description:

An Pearlware figure of a lion with its left paw on a ball,  based on the Medici Lions in Florence. Naively decorated  and modelled; utterly charming.

 

Circa 1820

 

Approx - 3 inches (75mm) tall.

 

 In good overall condition save minor paint loss specks.

 

For a similar figure see: Myrna Schkolne  Staffordshire Figures  Volume 3 page 163.

 

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