Female Guardian Lion with Cub
1600-1699
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Female Guardian Lion with Cub
1600-1699
Physical Qualities
Marble, 60 x 44.5 x 21.9 cm.
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
1939.255.2
Female lion with a cub under left paw, wearing a necklace of three flame(?) pendants, with an expression less fierce than the male's. Seated on a square cloth on a rectangular base decorated with ruyi-shaped lappet at center of front and toward front of sides, with sides of base decorated with an unidentified creature (front), qilin (PL) and deer (PR)
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1939; Parke-Bernet, New York, William Randolph Hearst Sale, 1939; William Randolph Hearst Collection; Collection A.W. Bahr, New York, 1922
'Fine Chinese Ceramics, Furniture, and Works of Art,' Sotheby's, New York, sale 6678, 3/22/1995, no. 189 (compare carving on marble pillars)
'Fine Chinese Ceramics, Furniture and Works of Art,' Sotheby's, New York, sale 7018, 9/23/1997, no. 178.
Sales Catalogue, Jacques Barrere S.A., Paris, for wood sculpture from Chu, Warring States, 4th-3rd century BC.
'Fine Chinese Ceramics, Furniture and Works of Art,' Sotheby's, New York, sale 7018, 9/23/1997, no. 178.
Sales Catalogue, Jacques Barrere S.A., Paris, for wood sculpture from Chu, Warring States, 4th-3rd century BC.
