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130 AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE INSCRIBED STONE LION
SUI DYNASTY, DATED DAYE 1ST YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 605
隋大業元年（605年） 石雕坐獅
powerfully carved, the muscular beast shown seated on its haunches licking its left foreleg, its head detailed with large
rounded eyes below thick bushy brows, surmounted by pointed ears pressed back against the long mane flowering back
over the neck, the arched back extending to a long bushy tail swept to the side, all raised on a rectangular base, inscribed to
the front with a seven-character inscription translating to ‘made in the second month of the first year of Daye’, the stone of a
mottled gray-buff color
Width 5¾ in., 14.5 cm
$ 50,000-70,000
PROVENANCE 銘文：
Nagatani, Inc., Chicago, 7th December 1957 大業元年二月造
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
來源
Nagatani, Inc.，芝加哥，1957年12月7日
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏
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