Carved from Tennessee pink marble, 1911 at the New York public library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden foundations.
Also a tag stating Edward Clark Potter, The New York library lions.
One bookend has the Made in the USA tag on the bottom.To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. RARE Magnificent New York Public Library Lion Bookends MINT No Chips.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. 4 interest-free installments or from 15.25/mo with. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. Exact scale models of the heroic-size lions in front of the New York Public Library, created under the supervision of. New York Public Library Lions Manhattan Bookends by Edward Clark Potter 7H. They are trademarked by the library, represented in it’s logo, and featured at major occasions.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Those names have stood the test of time: Patience guards the south side of the library’s steps and Fortitude to the north.Īs a tribute to the lions’ popularity and all that they stand for, the library adopted these figures as its mascots.
During the 1930’s, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia named them Patience and Fortitude, for the qualities he felt New Yorkers would need to survive the economic depression. First they were called Leo Astor and Leo Lenox, after The New York Public Library founders John Jacob Astor and James Lenox. Their nicknames have changed over the decades. Sculpter Edward Potter was paid 8,000 dollars in 1911 for the design and the Piccirilli Brothers executed the carving for 5,000 dollars out of pink Tennessee marble.After enduring almost a century of weather and pollution they were professionally cleaned and restored in 2004. One is signed 'MMA 1985' and the other is signed 'MMA 17.' Dimensions: Each bookend is approximately 7 3/4' x 4 1/8' x 7 1/4' Exhibited: 011621 Notes: 2396-0502 Condition: Very good, a small chip on the base of each of the bookends. One even served as the hiding place for the cowardly lion in the motion picture The Wiz. Description: Museum replica bookends of the lions from the New York Public Library. They have been photographed alongside countless tourists, replicated as bookends, caricatured in cartoons, and illustrated in numerous children books. New York Public Library Lions Manhattan Bookends by Edward Clark Potte Home New York Public Library Lions Manhattan Bookends by Edward Clark Potter 7H New York Public Library Lions Manhattan Bookends by Edward Clark Potter 7H (2) PN 4753 169.00 USD 169.00 USD 4 interest-free installments or from 15. Did you know that the marble lions proudly guarding the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue are named Patience and Fortitude? Often called New York’s most lovable public sculpture, the lions have witnessed countless parades and been adorned with holly wreaths during the winter holidays and magnificent floral wreaths in springtime.
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