Amusingly modelled as Buddhistic lion holding a large brocade ball, the beast with blue body, green mane and iron-red handle emerging from its back, the brocade ball decorated with pink panels on a yellow ground, applied with a short iron-red spout. The lion is standing on a wooden base.
For a pair of identical models, but with a pink body, see Christie’s London, The China Trade Sale, 5 April 2000, lot 113
Another example, with also a body in pink enamels, see Christie’s London, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art including Export Art, 8 June 2004, lot 362.
Photography : Jérémie Beylard / Agence PHAR
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