Pair of polychrome groups of boys riding lions

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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.

Afmetingen
Heights: 20.8 and 20.3 cm. (8.2 and 8 in.)
Code
D1770
Collectie
Aronson Antiquairs
Datering
circa 1775
Herkomst
Sold at Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, December 21-23, 1937, lot 20;
Collection Nijstad, Lochem
Materiaal/techniek
tin-glazed earthenware
Productieplaats
Delft
Unieke code
Aronson Delftware D1770