A Pair of Mid-20thC Black Painted Composition Stone Panthers sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus Unlike the forms of art

Unlike the forms of art that preceded it

some restorations to the gilt frame

there is loss to parts of the locomotive with rusting to the metal and one part of loss to the wheel

the prominent painter William Etty still parted with £48 for one similar to this in 1823

Beautifully hand crafted in the early part of the twentieth century

A Pair of Mid-20thC Black Painted Composition Stone Panthers sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus Unlike the forms of artOrigin: English Period: Mid 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1950 70 Height: 29. 5 Width: 11 Depth: 17 (each) The cast reconstituted stone panthers of large size, sejant on rectangular bases, both facing to dexter, having been black painted and now nicely timeworn with age, each with muscular bodies and snarling expressions, and surviving from the third quarter of the twentieth century. Although they both have losses to their lower jaws, as