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Baggott Church Street Ltd
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19th Century Pair of Staffordshire Pottery Lions
( England
c. 1860
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Dimensions
9.00inch wide
10.00inch high
(22.86 cm wide 25.40 cm high)
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Description / Expertise
The lions depicted sitting, right and left, over a French officer wearing an imperial. The figure almost certainly represents the British lion and Napoleon 111, and was probably produced at the time of the Anglo-French war scare of 1860.
For similar example see: Staffordshire Portrait Figures by P.D.Gordon Pugh.
Pub. by Antique Collectors’ Club. P292 Fig. 277.
English, circa 1860
Height 10” (25cm) Width 9” (22cm)
Stock No. 7939
Price £4,250.00 the pair.
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