Even the state’s most important figure has to take a break at some point. This must have been what the artist Luise Terletzki-Scherf thought when she designed this lion enjoying a stretch. It is playfully holding the Bavarian diamond escutcheon between its paws as though it were a food bowl to be filled. The only model in the lion series where this is the case, here the blue and white decoration also extends over the young animal. Despite the playfulness of the young animal, the artist succeeded in expressing its alertness and strength, which it needs as king of the jungle.