A good Brown-Westhead, Moore and Co. Exhibition Group circa 1878

modelled with a snarling tiger, realistically painted in orange and black, standing before a hollow tree trunk on a shaped moulded base in green and brown tones, applied with foliage

There are a number of quite significant firing cracks in the base, these would largely seem to have been patched and made secure at the time of manufacture. A large crack can be seen in the base running around from the edge and up the side of the tree trunk. The cracks around the trunk are largely disguised by the tiger and foliage, there is a small chip to the lower lip of the mouth, there are small chips to the base. The colours are more muted than in the photograph.
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For a drawing of this model see The illustrated Catalogue of the Paris International Exhibition, 1878, pl. 45, where the group is described: ' We give on this page some of the very varied works of Messrs. Brown Westhead, Moore & Co., of Cauldon Place, Staffordshire. We shall engrave other of their excellent productions. Here we only insert a few of their lesser works, surmounted however by a marvellous achivement in pottery - a group of two Tigers'.