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Lot Essay
Shishi traditionally stand guard outside the gates of Japanese shrines and Buddhist temples.
For a similar example, formerly in the Reitlinger Collection and now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, see Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2002), pl. 185.
For an example mounted in ormolu as a candelabrum, in the Residenzmuseum, Munich, see John Ayers et al., Porcelain for Palaces, exh. cat. (London: Oriental Ceramic Society, 1990), pl. 146.
For a second pair of lions, see Yabe Yoshiaki, Kakiemon, vol. 20 of Nihon toji taikei (Compendium of Japanese Ceramics) (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1989), pl. 88.
See also a pair of smaller Kakiemon models of karashishi, in dark red, turquoise, and blue tones, sold at Christie’s London, 7 November 2012, lot 389.
For a similar example, formerly in the Reitlinger Collection and now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, see Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain (Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2002), pl. 185.
For an example mounted in ormolu as a candelabrum, in the Residenzmuseum, Munich, see John Ayers et al., Porcelain for Palaces, exh. cat. (London: Oriental Ceramic Society, 1990), pl. 146.
For a second pair of lions, see Yabe Yoshiaki, Kakiemon, vol. 20 of Nihon toji taikei (Compendium of Japanese Ceramics) (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1989), pl. 88.
See also a pair of smaller Kakiemon models of karashishi, in dark red, turquoise, and blue tones, sold at Christie’s London, 7 November 2012, lot 389.