Aronson Antiquairs

Pair of polychrome groups of boys riding lions

Delft, circa 1775
Beschrijving

Each boy wearing a yellow trimmed green jacket, a light blue waistcoat, blue breeches and manganese shoes and head, and modeled affronté, seated astride a yellow and manganese-coated lion, one arm raised, the other holding the neck hair of the lion, and the animal standing foursquare on the green top of an oval base decorated around the edge with an iron-red dotted yellow foot rim.

Productieplaats
Delft
Datering
circa 1775
Materiaal/techniek
tin-glazed earthenware
Afmetingen
Heights: 20.8 and 20.3 cm. (8.2 and 8 in.)
Collection
inventarisnummer
D1770