A Pair of Late 19thC Lead Cistern Supports Formed as Seated Lion-Dogs c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The large floor standing frame

The large floor standing frame

the industry has gradually adopted the use of analine colours

The 12th-century historian William of Malmesbury was of the community

and it is certainly rather unusual and scarce

This beautiful species was not discovered until around 1910 on the island of Formosa

A Pair of Late 19thC Lead Cistern Supports Formed as Seated Lion-Dogs c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The large floor standing frameOrigin: Unknown Period: Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 Width: 6 Height: 12. 5 Depth: 13 (each) The solid lead sculpted figures of a pair of stylised lion dogs, freestanding and formerly being the supports for a cistern, each showing a very good patination to the lead, and surviving from the latter stages of the nineteenth century. The figures are in stable overall order and as they have been supports the tops of the heads are therefore