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A pair of 'blanc de chine' Dehua Buddhist lions, 17th / 18th…
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Melbourne
Date:
27-May-2008
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A pair of 'blanc de chine' Dehua Buddhist lions, 17th / 18th century, 31 cm high each seated on its haunches, with one foreleg raised over a pierced ribboned brocade ball, one with her cub to the side, the large heads with bushy brows and open jaws holding fluttering ribbons in their teeth, each beast adorned with a collar of bells, the mane and spine applied with sprig-moulded locks of hair and smaller curls, the high rectangular plinths applied with flowering prunus boughs Compare with a pair of lions bearing an inscription datable to 1644 illustrated by P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, the Porcelain of Tehua in Fukien
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Unclassified