Male Guardian Lion with Embroidered Ball
1600-1699
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Male Guardian Lion with Embroidered Ball
1600-1699
Physical Qualities
Marble, 61 x 44.5 x 22.5 cm.
Credit Line
Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number
1939.255.1
Male lion with embroidered ball under right paw, wearing a necklace of three flame(?) pendants and having a glowering expression. Seated on square cloth on rectangular base decorated with ruyi-shaped lappet at center of front and toward front of both sides, with sides of base decorated with dragon (front), fabulous elephant (PR), rabbit holding ruyi scepter (PL).
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.
