FAMILLE VERTE
A PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT BUDDHISTIC LIONS modelled in mirror-image, one playing with a lion cub, the other with its right front paw resting on a brocade ball, each seated on rectangular base decorated with four quatrefoil-shaped panels of a Buddistic emblems all reserved on a spiral-pattern enriched with flower-sprays, the mane and eyebrows in tight curls, each with the character wang on the forehead and wearing tasseled collars around the neck (body cracks), 19th Century

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT BUDDHISTIC LIONS modelled in mirror-image, one playing with a lion cub, the other with its right front paw resting on a brocade ball, each seated on rectangular base decorated with four quatrefoil-shaped panels of a Buddistic emblems all reserved on a spiral-pattern enriched with flower-sprays, the mane and eyebrows in tight curls, each with the character wang on the forehead and wearing tasseled collars around the neck (body cracks), 19th Century
33cm. high (2)

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