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Lot 159
A Chinese Sancai Glazed Foo Lion Sculpture
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Sculpture of a foo lion with mouth wide open showing its teeth, mane and tail with curls, wearing a collar with bells around its neck, wearing a decorated blanket on its back and standing on a raised base, glazed in gold, green and aubergine.

21 1/2 x 26 x 9 in.

From the Collection of Gerard and Joanna Rattelade, Oxford, North Carolina

Overall good estate condition; some chips to the hole where tail rests; chip to right ear and mane on front hand side; some scattered minor nicks to edges; tail insert wrapped with old tape, tape needs to be removed to fit it into the lion.