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Lot Essay
Cf. Anton Gabszewicz, Bow Porcelain, The Collection Formed by Geoffrey Freeman (London, 1982), p. 154, no. 262 for a pair without a bocage.
Details
A Bow model of a lioness
Circa 1760
To the right, with a brown coat, her muzzle in black, modelled standing before a flowering bocage on a scroll-moulded rectangular mound base enriched in puce (the trunk and edge of bocage restored, and some chipping to flowers and leaves, some flaking to the edge of the base)
4 in. ( 10.2 cm.) high
Circa 1760
To the right, with a brown coat, her muzzle in black, modelled standing before a flowering bocage on a scroll-moulded rectangular mound base enriched in puce (the trunk and edge of bocage restored, and some chipping to flowers and leaves, some flaking to the edge of the base)
4 in. ( 10.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Anon. sale Christie's London, 21 March 1977, lot 155.
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