Two Staffordshire Agateware Models, Recumbent Lion and Cat

Mid- to late 18th century, the lion attributed to Ralph Wood, underglaze tortoiseshell Pratt colors on a striated red and white agateware clay, with partial label to underside, otherwise unmarked (3 x 3 3/4 x 2 in.); the second a model of a seated cat with captured mouse, brown and white agateware clay with cobalt, unsigned, with label of "Matthew & Elizabeth Sharpe / Antiques / SPRING HILL / CONSHOHOCKEN / PENNSYLVANIA."

From the Collection of Josephine Chapman Borthwick, Pinehurst, North Carolina

The lion in good condition; cat with some restoration to ear tips, mouse with chips to ears and tail tip.