A STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERY FLATBACK FIGURE OF THE 'LION SLAYER'

A STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERY FLATBACK FIGURE OF THE 'LION SLAYER'

MID-19TH CENTURY

depicting Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming, in Highland dress, standing on a rock, holding the paw of the lion in his right hand, titled

42.7cm high, 21cm wide

Provenance

The Sir Michael Codron Collection of Lions.

Catalogue Note

See P. D. Gordon Pugh, 'Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era', p.516, fig.9, for a similar figure by Sampson-Smith.