'Golden lion' [Lion figurehead]

Gilded and painted figurehead of a crouching and snarling lion, locally called 'Golden Lion', from an unidentified vessel. Nothing is definitely known of its origins, or how it arrived in the Valhalla Collection on Tresco, though there is a tradition that it came from a wreck off Land's End.

Object Details

ID: FHD0006
Collection: Figureheads
Type: Figurehead
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 19th century
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Valhalla Collection
Measurements: Overall: 2692 x 508 x 432 mm