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A GRAY LIMESTONE FIGURE OF A LION
Tang dynasty Provenance
The powerful beast with broad muscular chest, seated on its rear Christie’s, London, 13 May 1994, lot 535
haunches, the body in a gentle curve, the turned head with tightly
curled mane, fronted by bulging eyes, above a mouth open in a roar, A similar example in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum
the curled tongue framed by its fangs, all supported on a square of Art is illustrated in The Arts of the T’ang Dynasty. Los Angeles
pedestal. County Museum, Jan 8-Feb 17, 1957, Cat. 41; and also in Bradley
12 1/4in (31.2cm) high Smith and Weng Wango, China: A History in Art, New York, 1979, p.
118.
$30,000 - 50,000
唐 石雕坐獅

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