An Early 19thC Folk Art Painted Terracotta Model of a Lion c.1810 sub-Architectural & Garden with lights

with lights

as could be done with the Claude mirror

The plate does have some minor areas of wear

Each Strand: 94” high (approximately)

with fruit and flowers issuing from the centre in ruby red and peacock blue with white highlights to a gilt ground and presented in a later gilt frame and surviving from the middle of seventeenth century Netherlands

An Early 19thC Folk Art Painted Terracotta Model of a Lion c.1810 sub-Architectural & Garden with lightsOrigin: UnknownPeriod: Early 19thCProvenance: The Sir Michael Codron Collection of LionsDate: c. 1800 25Width: 5Height: 6Depth: 2In original condition, the naively stylised hand painted terracotta lion, being free standing and with kindly facial features to a flowing stylised mane, the whole surviving from the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The condition is slightly tired which is part of its appeal with chipping to the paintwork as