The Manny Davidson Collection: A Life in Treasures and Benevolence - Online Sale

A pair of Staffordshire creamware figures of leopards, early 19th century

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4,000 - 6,000 EUR

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Description

naturalistically modelled and painted, each recumbent on an oval grassy mound base, one with its paw resting on a piece of meat

(2)

Length 8 1/2 in and 8 1/4 in; Long. 21,6 cm and 21 cm

With Brian Haughton, London, 1988, where acquired

An example of this model in the Wisbech & Fenland Museum (1901.78) is illustrated in P. Halfpenny, English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840, Woodbridge, 1991, p. 210. A similar pair of leopards from the Hope McCormick collection was sold at Christie's New York, 21 January 2003, lot 8.

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