AN UNUSUAL CHINESE CLOISONNE AND CHAMPLEVE ENAMEL BUDDHISTIC LION GROUP

17TH 18TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL CHINESE CLOISONNE AND CHAMPLEVE ENAMEL BUDDHISTIC LION GROUP
17TH 18TH CENTURY
The ferocious lion with head turned sharply to the side and mouth open in a threatening roar as it clambers atop multi-colored outcroppings of rocks from which sprout orangy red peonies, the lion's body in cloisonné enamel of rich blue tone with white star-like markings, its brows, mane and tail as well as the rocks and peonies all in champlevé enamel
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) long

Provenance

S. Eckman, Jr., Esq., C.B.E.; Sotheby's, London, 9 October 1967, lot 79.

Lot Essay

Star-like markings similar to those on this unusual figure can also be seen on a figure of a recumbent deer in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, which was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, London, 1958, no. 323.

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