A pair of Samuel Alcock models of leopards
modelled recumbent, one eating a chunk of meat, naturalistically coloured with black spots, on rocky gilt line mound bases, one impressed and the other incised 236, circa 1840 (one restored) -- 9.3cm. and 8.5cm. wide See colour plate 5 (2)
Lot Essay
Cf. D.G. Rice English Porcelain Animals of the 19th Century, (1989), p.180, fig. 146
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