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Lot 280
A FINE PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE BUDDHIST LIONS
Estimated Value:
3.000 € - 5.000 €
Schätzpreis:
4.500 €
Description:
China, Qing dynasty, 18th/ 19th c.H. je 12 cm (17,3 cm mit Sockel)
The lions are cast seated on their haunches, the male with its right front paw resting on a brocade ball, the female with a lion cub beneath its left paw, each with powerful jaws and a fierce expression beneath the mane with a wealth of tightly curled locks. Carved wood stands.
From the collection of merchant Alfred Julius Forkel (1873-1934), assembled in China prior to 1910, described in the collector's diary, written between 1901 and 1910, on page 74, no. 8
Compare the present lot to a pair of very similar gilt-bronze lions sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28.11.2006, lot 1664 - Very minior traces of age, one wood stand with small loss
