19th Century English Staffordshire Lions with Lambs - a Pair

Description

A handsome pair of English Staffordshire pottery decorative animal sculptures, finely modeled and colored as lions with recumbent lambs.
Decorated … more A handsome pair of English Staffordshire pottery decorative animal sculptures, finely modeled and colored as lions with recumbent lambs.
Decorated 'in the round' - decoration to front and reverse.

Denoted as rare among collectors, the pair commemorates the visit to Great Britain of American lion tamer Isaac van Amburgh in the 1840s where he caused a sensation with his spectacular act.

Sold as a pair - $4950 the pair. less