Staffordshire Plate "The Lion, the Bear, & the Fox." · Carlson Fable Collection

Title: Staffordshire Plate "The Lion, the Bear, & the Fox."
Description: 1835 Staffordshire Plate "The Lion, the Bear, & the Fox." 8¼" diameter. "Aesop's Fables." Copeland and Garrett. $50 from Alphabetiques, Montague, MA, through Ebay, Sept., '19.

Here is a lovely presentation in green of the fable in which the lion and bear wear each other out in struggling over the carcass of a deer. Exhausted, the two need to lie and watch as a fox carries away the prey that they have fought over. The verso has clear markings of "Spode" and the quoted titles above.
Date: 1835
Source: $50 from Alphabetiques, Montague, MA, through Ebay, Sept., '19.
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