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KANGXI PERIOD
Details
A BISCUIT-GLAZED LION EWER AND COVER
KANGXI PERIOD
Modelled as a Buddhistic lion standing with one paw on a pierced ball before a tall hexagonal ewer, its spout emerging from an open-mouthed fantastic beast mask, on a black-ground rectangular base, the finial as a smaller lion
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high (2)
KANGXI PERIOD
Modelled as a Buddhistic lion standing with one paw on a pierced ball before a tall hexagonal ewer, its spout emerging from an open-mouthed fantastic beast mask, on a black-ground rectangular base, the finial as a smaller lion
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
The Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottehedeh Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 19 October 2000, lot 136