A 20thC Alabaster and Serpentine Marble Lion’s Mask Wall Plaque sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus British flags billowing in the

British flags billowing in the background

The plates are in mixed overall order though overall they are well presented and in tact and the engravings with losses aren’t affected from a visual perspective

Here Landseer wittily contrasts the scale and character of a bloodhound called Grafton and a West Highland terrier called Scratch

so the balance is just as it should be

A 20thC Alabaster and Serpentine Marble Lion’s Mask Wall Plaque sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus British flags billowing in theOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1996Height: 14. 25Width: 5. 25 Depth: 3. 5 (all at extremities and with hanging loop)The cast alabaster wall mask of a lions head, highly stylised, mounted to a green serpentine marble base with iron ring hanging attachment, and surviving from the last decade of the twentieth century. The condition of the mask is good with no losses or chips. It is signed verso RBC no. 16, 10. Jun. 95. It is