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A PUDDINGSTONE CARVING OF A LION Introduced into China from Central Asia as 坐像圓雕而成，獅口大張作吼，怒目圓睜，
Tang Dynasty symbols of religious power, probably following 腮毛後撇，雙耳後伏，鬃毛蝸卷，筋肉鮮明
The powerfully carved figure shown seated on the introduction of Buddhism during the Han 強健。
its haunches with forelegs outstretched, the dynasty, lions became significant protective
head facing forward with a fierce expression emblems within high-ranking architecture. 獅子造像隨佛教傳入中國，常作為力量的象
conveyed by bulging eyes and mouth open The Buddha Shakyamuni was seen after birth 徵，護衛法場。「獅吼」代表了守護及攝持
in a roar showing the teeth and up-curled pointing to Heaven with one hand and to 正法，饒益安樂一切眾生。紐約大都會博物
tongue, the ears flattened back above the Earth with the other, ‘roaring like a lion’ and 館藏有一件抱子石獅吼像，和本件拍品頗
curling mane, the lower part of the forelegs and Buddhists regarded lions as divine creatures 似，見L.Roberts著，《Treasures from the
rectangular base later, wood replacements. of nobleness and protectors of the Truth. Metropolitan Museum of Art（大都會博物館珍
15cm (5 7/8in) high. (2). 寶）》，紐約，1979年，編號28。尤莫弗普
Compare with a similar pudding stone 勒斯舊藏，現藏大英博物館的一件類似獅子像
£4,000 - 6,000 model of a seated lion, Tang dynasty, in the 亦資參考，見L.Ashton著，《 An Introduction
CNY36,000 - 54,000 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to the Study of Chinese Sculpture（中國雕塑
illustrated by L.Roberts, Treasures from the 導論）》，倫敦，1924年，圖版50。
唐 抱子石雕坐獅像 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1979,
no.28. Another puddingstone lion,
Provenance: Tang dynasty, formerly in the George
The Adolfo de Velasco Collection, Marrakech Eumorfopoulos Collection and currently in the
Jean-Yves Ollivier Collection British Museum, is illustrated by L.Ashton,
An Introduction to the Study of Chinese
來源： Sculpture, London, 1924, pl.50.
摩洛哥馬拉喀什藏家Adolfo de Velasco先生
舊藏
歐宗易先生珍藏

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