A Pair of Late 19thC Lead Cistern Supports Formed as Seated Lion-Dogs c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The latter phrenology movement was

The latter phrenology movement was largely responsible for the anthropometric (head reading) craze of the latter 19th century and its well-known anthropological and racial concerns

More research therefore is required here and could prove fruitful

and it is certainly rather unusual and scarce

Handle Top Diameter: 2 inches

these ‘lost wax process’ Asian symbols of peace are lifelike in their elegance

A Pair of Late 19thC Lead Cistern Supports Formed as Seated Lion-Dogs c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The latter phrenology movement wasOrigin: Unknown Period: Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 Width: 6 Height: 12. 5 Depth: 13 (each) The solid lead sculpted figures of a pair of stylised lion dogs, freestanding and formerly being the supports for a cistern, each showing a very good patination to the lead, and surviving from the latter stages of the nineteenth century. The figures are in stable overall order and as they have been supports the tops of the heads are therefore