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Fashioned in the form of a menacing Buddhist lion resting one 佛獅呈踩球蹲坐狀，張牙怒目，神情威嚴。動物瓷塑，由
of its paws on a ball, figures of animals were made at various 晉至宋，各窰口均有燒製。瑞獅塑像常成對而製，或作
kilns from the Jin dynasty to the Song period. Often made in 燈、枕之底座。瓷獅碎片曾發現於陝西省銅川市黃堡鎮，
pairs, these lions were either fired as free-standing sculptures 錄於《宋代耀州窰址》，北京，1998年，圖版CXX，編
or as stands for lamps and pillows. Fragments of lions have 號1、2 。另可比較 Mayer 舊藏獅子塑像，售於倫敦佳士
been recovered at the Yaozhou kiln site in Huangpu, near 得1974年6月24日，編號38。還參考三晉代獅形燈座例，
Tongchuan, Shaanxi province, and illustrated in The Yaozhou 載於《耀州窰》，西安，1991年，頁116及117。也有器
Kiln Site of the Song Period, Beijing, 1998, pl. CXX, nos 1 and 蓋上塑相類器蓋，其中一例售於紐約蘇富比2007年7月
2; and a free-standing lion from the Mayer Collection was 19日，編號396，克里夫蘭美術館藏還有一例，藏品編號
sold at Christie’s London, 24th June 1974, lot 38. See also 1966.26，屬 Fanny Tewksbury King 舊藏。
two lion-shaped covers, one sold in our New York rooms, 19th
July 2007, lot 396; and another attributed to the Northern 青白釉器上紋飾也有與此獅輪廓相似之例，參見一青白
Song dynasty, from the Fanny Tewksbury King Collection 釉獅形香爐，刊於《柴窰與湖田窰》，廣州，2003年，
and preserved in the Cleveland Museum of Art, accession no. 頁70。
1966.26.

The silhouette of this piece is reminiscent of figures of lions
covered in a qingbai glaze; see a lion-shaped incense burner
illustrated in Chai Kiln & Hutian Kiln, Guangzhou, 2003, p. 70.

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