Male Guardian Lion with Embroidered Ball
1600
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
