A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE LION DOGS

A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE LION DOGS
KANGXI 1662-1722

The male with a reticulated brocade ball, the female with her puppy, each with a joss stick holder to their backs, and standing on artemisia leaf bases, paper label for John Sparks, together with fitted wood stands and a paper label inscribed 'Sotheby's Feb 1964, Ionides Collection ...', 13cm. (4)

Provenance: from the family collection of Henry Ernest Leetham (1861-1923), and Kathleen and Noel Terry (d.1980). The original Terry family furniture is on display at Fairfax House in York; it was donated to the York Civic Trust after Noel’s death in 1980. Henry Leetham is recorded by R Davids and D Jellinek, Provenance, p.290, as a client of both Bluett's and Sparks between 1914 and 1927.

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來源：Henry Ernest Leetham (1861-1923)及Kathleen and Noel Terry (d.1980)家族收藏。據R David及D Jellinek所著《來源》一書中記載（頁290），1914年至1927年間Leetham是Bluett's及Sparks古董店的常客。