Roman bronze lioness furniture fitting

A bronze furniture fitting in the form of a leaping lioness with shaggy fur and extended tongue.

Culture
Roman, 3rd or 4th Century AD

Size
7 x 6 cms, 10 cms tall including stand

Condition
Fragment as shown

Provenance
Ex. private collection, France; acquired in the mid to late 19th Century.

Mounted on a custom-made early 20th Century ebonised wood display stand