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Lot 1455
A Facing Pair of English Staffordshire Poodles
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
19th century, featuring painted features and gilded collars, chip-glazed coats, applied by hand, and separately moulded front legs, not marked.


Each 10 1/2 in.

From the Collection of Leroy Lewis and Frank Rubis, Kinston, North Carolina

Some loss of paint to the faces; one with an area of the coat lacking clay chips; the other with break and repair to a front leg as well as crazing and hairlines to the 'rump'.