Renaissance Style Terracotta Lion Well Head

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Renaissance Style Terracotta Lion Well HeadA striking and elegant classical Renaissance style Well Head with Lion head motifs. Third quarter 20th Century. Created in the third quarter 20th Century from terracotta polychromed stone composite. The Well Head has distinctive Lion mask details grasping rope swags in their mouths to support heraldic shields, the kind of decoration that adorned pieces made originally for Italian Noble palazzi particularly around the time of the Renaissance in Italy.

The object has honesty from it’s material

Alternatively this would make the most wonderful bowl for a garden fountain

the surface now revealing hundreds of thousands of molluscs and shells eroded with time outside in the elements of her Parish

Hand-painted and sign-written by hand with ‘TABAK’

A stunning Grand Tour/Raj Urn created in India in the 19th Century

the first iron-reinforced concrete bridge ever built was constructed at the Castle of Chazelet

the colour now well patinated with age

which is very rare for pieces of this kind

The famous pottery houses were renowned for their rustic garden urns featuring a green glazed body decorated with lobed handles connected to a tapering belly and resting on a circular base with a drainage hole

their arms gently stretched and clasped

mid-20th Century

(Seen in one image with a pairing vase for scale difference)

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