Lot Essay
Cf. P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. E421, fig. 189.
Details
A figure of Samson and the Lion
typically modelled, Samson standing beside the lion prizing open its jaws with both hands, well coloured on grassy mound base -- 31cm. high; a figure of a hunter, in biblical dress, modelled standing holding a dagger and a deer by its horns, a hound below -- 35cm. high; and a model of a hunter, standing with a hound at his feet -- 33.5cm. high, mid 19th century (3)
typically modelled, Samson standing beside the lion prizing open its jaws with both hands, well coloured on grassy mound base -- 31cm. high; a figure of a hunter, in biblical dress, modelled standing holding a dagger and a deer by its horns, a hound below -- 35cm. high; and a model of a hunter, standing with a hound at his feet -- 33.5cm. high, mid 19th century (3)
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