Royal Porcelain: A lying lion of biscuit after Thorvaldsen model

with the Royal Danish Porcelain mark from 1820 - 50 after Thorvaldsen's figure A reclining lion, which he modeled in Rome in 1825.
In the factory's catalog from 1854, the lion is offered in four sizes, namely 10.5, 12.5, 15.5 and 16.5 cm.

As early as 1824, the Royal Porcelain Manufactory issued bisque portrait busts modeled after Thorvaldsen's busts of Frederik VI and Prince Christian Frederik (later Christian VIII).
However, actual biscuit production only really got underway in the late 1830s. With the opening of the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen in 1848, interest in Thorvaldsen's work increased and Bing & Gøndahl, which started in 1853, also made a series of bisque objects based on Thorvaldsen's models.

Height: 8 cm

Source: Bredo Grandjean Biscuit after Thorvaldsen published by Thorvaldsens Museum 1978