Lot 300
300
A Pair of Dated Glazed Tileworks Figures of Buddhistic Lions and Stands
Tax exempt. PROPERTY OF A UNIVERSITY MUSEUM*
A Pair of Dated Glazed Tileworks Figures of Buddhistic Lions and Stands

LATE MING/QING DYNASTY

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A Pair of Dated Glazed Tileworks Figures of Buddhistic Lions and Stands
Late Ming/Qing Dynasty
Each well modeled with mouth open exposing the teeth and tongue, with bulging eyes below bushy brows and long curly mane and curly upswept tail, the strap spanning the chest hung with a large tassel and two bells, raised on a separate rectangular plinth with a central circular aperture on top and fluted columns at the corners, three sides molded in high relief with an animal, two of them lions, the third a deer, and the fourth side inscribed with a thirty-character dated da Ming Xuande Gengxu corresponding to 1430, inscription, all covered in a streaked turquoise glaze iridesced in places to silver, with details in deep aubergine, ochre and white
49in. (124.5cm.) high overall (2)
Special notice
Tax exempt.

Lot Essay

The dedicatory inscription reads, 'Long fei da ming xuande wu ji he yue shuo ri gu dan Jin shou qiu wo xian ze ren shi xin di zi ke ce jing xian.

Refer to Oriental Ceramics Society, London: The Animal in Chinese Art, 1968, no. 173, for a pair of smaller Ming turquoise and aubergine-glazed Buddhistic lions on pedestals, one with a dedicatory inscription to a temple in southern Shaanxi, dated the first year of Chenghua (1465) and later sold Christie's London, 31 March 1969, lot 75.

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