Lot 6
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A LARGE PAIR OF BISCUIT-GLAZED FAMILLE VERTE BUDDHIST LIONS
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR (LOT 6)
A LARGE PAIR OF BISCUIT-GLAZED FAMILLE VERTE BUDDHIST LIONS

KANGXI PERIOD

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A LARGE PAIR OF BISCUIT-GLAZED FAMILLE VERTE BUDDHIST LIONS
KANGXI PERIOD
The seated lions modeled with open jaws, revealing their fangs and red tongues, their bodies richly decorated with molded manes and breasts and legs, while their heads are applied with colorful curly hair and eyebrows and their ears are veined as leaves while their spines are decorated with yellow spotted bamboo above a notch to hold a removable tail, gilt shou medallions between their bulging eyes, fitted wood stands
12½ in. (31.7 cm.) high, the porcelain (2)

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These exceptionally well-modeled beasts were made separately from whatever base they originally sat on, and without the pups or brocade ball that, perhaps later in the period, became conventional for the type.

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