A Pair of Early 20thC Black Painted Stone Garden Lions c.1930-40 sub-Natural History appreciated for being so realistic

appreciated for being so realistic "that we can desire no livelier illustration of life in India"

he developed additional ones that he sold to his fellow stage performers

some 20 years before Thomas Chippendale

He ducks in to the entrance of 118-119 model dwelling housing to take stock

which poured into European ports from expeditions to the East and West Indies and from the American continent

A Pair of Early 20thC Black Painted Stone Garden Lions c.1930-40 sub-Natural History appreciated for being so realisticOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Early Mid 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1930 40Height: 21. 5Width: 9Depth: 12 (each)The stylised reconstituted stone lions, sejant on oval bases, having been black painted, each with contented expressions and scrollwork to the bases and surviving from the second quarter of the twentieth century. The lions are in stable overall order with commensurate weathering to the paint, showing some areas of loss; to a front leg and to