J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Art: The Szekeres Collection
March 13-29, 2019
20.
A SMALL RED SANDSTONE SEATED FIGURE OF A LION
Tang Dynasty (618 – 907)
seated with forelegs outstretched and jaws open in a roaring attitude, the eyes fixed in a defiant stare, the long tail folded over one hind leg, the mane carved as two tiers of thick curls, the flanks smoothly polished, the pomegranate-red stone with traces of black pigment and remains of burial earth.
Height 5 1⁄4 inches (13.3 cm)
Provenance
William H. Wolff, Inc., New York
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat, Upton, Massachusetts
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat, 7 November 1980, lot 12
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 1992
Exhibited / Published
Worcester Art Museum, on loan from Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat
J. J. Lally & Co., Chinese Archaic Bronzes, Sculpture and Works of Art, New York, 1991, no. 7
Compare the Tang marble lion from the collection of K. Meyer, exhibited in Berlin and illustrated in Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst, Berlin, 1929, p. 139, no. 321
唐 紅砂岩坐獅 高 13.3 厘米
