A CHINESE MARBLE FIGURE OF A BUDDHIST LION

A CHINESE MARBLE FIGURE OF A BUDDHIST LION
TANG/SONG DYNASTY

Seated with a boy standing beside the front right leg and with a cub beneath the front left paw, all on a lotus throne above a rectangular plinth, 36.3cm.

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注：本拍品不設底價。

Provenance: from an English private collection, Sussex.

Cf. JM Addis, Chinese Ceramics from Datable Tombs and Some Other Dated Material: A handbook, pl.19a, for a pair of similar stone lions excavated from the tomb of Yan Deyuan, dated to 1189.