J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

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Past Exhibition

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 14 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