A porcelain model a of a Chinese lion (shishi)

HIZEN WARE, KAKIEMON STYLE, EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

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A porcelain model a of a Chinese lion (shishi)
Hizen Ware, Kakiemon Style, Edo period (late 17th century)
Seated on a rectangular base with mouth open in a snarl and with one paw resting on a brocade ball, decorated in blue, iron-red, green, yellow and black enamels painted over a clear glaze
8 1/8in. (20.6cm.) high

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Lot Essay

This is the left of a pair of lions. For a very similar example, formerly in the Reitlinger Collection and now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, see Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2002), pl. 185.

For an example mounted in ormolu as a candelabrum, in the Residenzmuseum in Munich, see John Ayers et al., Porcelain for Palaces, exh. cat. (London: Oriental Ceramic Society, 1990), pl. 146.

For a second pair of lions, see Yabe Yoshiaki, Kakiemon, vol. 20 of Nihon toji taikei (Compendium of Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1989), pl. 88.

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