Female Guardian Lion with Cub
1600
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
