A rare limestone fragmentary relief of a lion head Northern Qi dynasty | 北齊 石灰岩浮雕獅頭殘石
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A rare limestone 🌳fragmentary relief of a lion head
Northern Qi dynasty
北齊 石灰岩浮雕獅頭殘石
the greyish stone with traces of a white layer and ochre pigment, naturalistically carved in t♏he form of a lion head, set with bulging expressive eyes within thin brows, a broad snout with flared nostrils, above a wide grinning mouth closed with a cleft upper lip, all below raised pricked ears, stepped wood stand
22.5 cm
Collꦉection of Sakamoto Gorō (1923-2016), acquired between the 1950s and 🌠1960s.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8th October 2013, lot 119.
坂本五郎（1923-2016年）收藏，購於1950-1960年代
香港蘇富比2013年10月8日，編號119
Two comparable lion heads which may have served as supports for the pillars of a gateway, with only the heads and front parts of the animals fully executed and the hind parts serving as plinths, are illustrated in Osvald Sirén, Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century, vol. 1, New York, 1970, pls 434 a and b, the former from the collection of Octave Homberg, Paris, and the latter from a New York private collection.