At around the same time that Roman Anton Boos, as Sculptor to the Electoral Court, designed a series of statuettes of the ancient gods for the Nymphenburg Palace grounds, he also created a pair of lions holding an escutcheon. The animals, which are looking at each other, adorn the outside stairs on the Palace’s garden side. In 1958, Franz Xaver Lorch used them as a model and turned the attractive pair into two hand-span-sized porcelain figurines. Humble and modest, the two big cats, one on the left and one on the right, are crouching behind the magnificently framed escutcheon.