A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN WATERDROPPER

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A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN WATERDROPPER
YI DYNASTY (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

The porcelain waterdropper modelled as a crouching Buddhistic lion with its head turned back over its right shoulder, the details incised and decorated in underglaze blue beneath a blue-tinged white glaze - 4 1/2 x 3 1/4in. (11.4 x 8.3cm.) chip with old restoration to one foot