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A PAIR OF ROUEN FAIENCE MODELS OF SEATED HERALDIC LIONS
Lot 84

A PAIR OF ROUEN FAIENCE MODELS OF SEATED HERALDIC LIONS

CIRCA 1780-1820

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A PAIR OF ROUEN FAIENCE MODELS OF SEATED HERALDIC LIONS
Circa 1780-1820
Each painted with blue spots and yellow manes, seated with an opposing paw resting on a yellow cartouche painted in blue with a landscape, on rectangular bases
27in. (68.6cm.) high, 19in. (50cm.) wide (2)

With Lefebvre et Fils, Paris

Specialist note

Cf. Jean-Gabriel Peyre and Jean-Claude Sieberth, Le lion dans tous ses tats du XVIe au XIXe sicles, Galerie Verneuil-Bac, Paris, 18 September - 30 November 1988, p. 5, illus. lower left for an slightly earlier version of the present model also with pierced circular ears and a distinctive 'smile'.