CIRCA 1760

Details

A BOW MODEL OF A LION
Circa 1760
Naturalistically modelled recumbent to left, its forepaw resting on a globe, its coat streaked in brown and with a red tongue, on shaped rectangular mound base enriched in green
4 in. (10 cm.) long

Provenance

with The Antique Porcelain Co. Inc., New York.

Sale room notice

Please note that this lot is impressed at the back with a capital 'B'.

Lot Essay

Elizabeth Adams and David Redstone, Bow Porcelain, London, 1991, pl. 125, illustrates a closely similar pair of lions; a white pair were sold in Christie's, King Street, 2 June 1986, lot 304, and a single right hand lion, 20 October 1986, lot 196. More recently, a pair very similar in colouring to the prsent left hand example from an important private collection was sold at Christie's, King Street: 50 Years of Collecting: Decorative Arts of Georgian England, 14 May 2003, lot 228.

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