A Small Blackish-Brown Stone Figure of a Lion
A Small Blackish-Brown Stone Figure of a Lion

SIX DYNASTIES PERIOD OR LATER

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A Small Blackish-Brown Stone Figure of a Lion
Six Dynasties period or later
Shown seated with mouth open in a roar and front paws firmly planted on a rectangular plinth, the beard, and upswept mane carved in shallow relief and delineated with curled ends, the tail extending up the back and simply carved as a flange
7 3/8in. (18.7cm.) high, stand
Falk Collection no. 569.
Provenance
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 1925.
Paul Baerwald Collection, New York.

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