A Striking Pair of Painted Mid 20thC Recumbent Stone Garden Lions sub-Antiques when colourful tin-glazed tiles began

when colourful tin-glazed tiles began to be imported from Holland

Hand tooled leather was very popular in the 1920s

It is believed that round top trunks were made for those who wanted their trunk packed on the top of baggage cars

In 1922 they exhibited at the British Industries Fair

A Striking Pair of Painted Mid 20thC Recumbent Stone Garden Lions sub-Antiques when colourful tin-glazed tiles beganOrigin: English Period: Early Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1930 50 Each: Height: 14 inches Width 10. 5 inches Length: 22 inches Weight: 52. 8 KGS Each The stylised reconstituted stone lions, recumbent on rectangular bases, having been black painted survive from the middle of the twentieth century. The lions are in good overall order with commensurate weathering to the paint, showing two small areas of loss; one being a plinth