Bear Baiting

A very rare English creamware pottery figure of large proportion of a bear and a mastiff dog. The

Bridge, Southwark is depicted along with the bull/bear baiting rings, immensely popular sports during the

Description: Antique 19th century exceptionally rare Victorian Solid Silver Novelty bear baiting

Antique 19th century exceptionally rare Victorian solid silver novelty bear baiting desk inkwell

is called a baiting vessel/jar. A sitting Bear holding a club box. This Bear has the coat of arms of

paperweight in the form of bear-baiting; an addition to our animal related silverware collection. This fine

antique aquatint titled 'Bear Baiting' by J. Clark portrays a scene related to the cruel and now outlawed

Baiting and Bear Baiting was thankfully banned in England in 1835. Staffordshire.

base. The figure is a significant size and is strongly decorated in pratt colours. Bear baiting was a

figures appear whimsical, but in fact portray the cruel yet popular sport of bear-baiting, a legal

of bear baiting where the beast would be chained to a post to fight with savage dogs. Thankfully

, along with bear-baiting, reached the peak of its popularity in England in the early 1800s until they

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