A stone figure of a seated lion


Tang DynastyThe muscular lion carved seated on its hind legs with extended forelegs and bulging chest, the head slightly turned to its left, bearing a ferocious expression with bared teeth and bulging eyes, the neck covered with a curly mane. 24.8cm (9 3/4in) high.
|唐 石雕坐獅Provenance: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2003, no.113A distinguished English private collection來源：2003年購於倫敦Roger Keverne Ltd.，「夏季展覽」，編號113英國顯貴私人收藏For similar stone figures of a lion, Tang dynasty, see Trubner, The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, no.41, in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; O.Siren, Chinese Sculpture: From the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century, pl.435D, in the collection of the Louvre, Paris; L.Ashton, An Introduction to the Study of Chinese Sculpture, pl.L; and A.Priest, Chinese Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, pl.LXXVI, for an example in puddingstone.