Description
An exceptionally rare Staffordshire pottery pearlware glazed bocage-type figure with good enamel decoration.
The figure is an imaginative representation of a lion, although more likely a leopard and her cub, with striking spotted decoration.
The feline stands on a green grassy mound, the spotted tail coiled over its back, the head is decorated with a myriad of brown and ochre dots, the cub similarly colored, crouching on a ledge below.
A compelling and extraordinary figure previously unrecorded in any of the standard references.