拍品 15
15
Various Properties
A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE BUDDHISTIC LIONS

细节
A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE BUDDHISTIC LIONS

Each with Buddhistic lion seated upon its haunches and with its right paw resting upon an orb, the cylindrical nozzles issuing ormolu flowers and shoots, the canted stepped rectangular pedestal upon a fasce-bound plinth and ribbon-tied laurel-swagged rectangular base with stylised Greek-key feet, the porcelain 17th/18th Century, the mounts associated and probably not French, one with printed label 26, the other 27
12¼in. (31cm.) high; 6in. (15cm.) wide; 5in. (13cm.) deep (2)

拍品专文

The Buddhistic lion is an emblem of valour and energy, those indispensible complements of wisdom. It does not appear in Chinese primitive art, although it was introduced later with Buddhism, figuring as the Defender of Law and Protector of Sacred Buildings. The male lion is often seen playing with a ball and flanked by a joss-stick holder, which was probably filled with flowers before being mounted.

An extremely closely related pair of Buddhistic lions in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris (no.220) is illustrated in Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und Japanisches Porzellan in Europaïschen Fassungen, Braunschweig, 1980, p.373, Abb. 384