A Pair of Late 19thC Lead Cistern Supports Formed as Seated Lion-Dogs c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage and with such elegant lines

and with such elegant lines

The large floor standing frame

which in tandem with the phials and bottles would have made up the apothecary’s long and extensive inventory

appearing in the 1810s

A Pair of Late 19thC Lead Cistern Supports Formed as Seated Lion-Dogs c.1900 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage and with such elegant linesOrigin: 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