Lot Essay
P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Figures of the Victorian Era (1970), p. E421, fig. 189, for the lead item.
Details
A figure of Samson and the lion
Samson modelled standing prizing open the lion's jaw, on shaped oval gilt-line base, circa 1860 -- 28cm. high; a spill vase group of two children sleeping beneath the tree spill, sparsely coloured and gilt -- 26cm. high; and a figure of Will Watch -- 39.5cm. high, 19th century (3)
Samson modelled standing prizing open the lion's jaw, on shaped oval gilt-line base, circa 1860 -- 28cm. high; a spill vase group of two children sleeping beneath the tree spill, sparsely coloured and gilt -- 26cm. high; and a figure of Will Watch -- 39.5cm. high, 19th century (3)
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