AN EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF MASSIVE MARBLE FU LIONS LATE MING DYNASTY the imposing pair modelled as male and female beasts, each chisled from single blocks of white marble, seated on its haunches with its jaws open snarling, exposing a full mouth of teeth and a broad curled tongue, the bulging eyes peering from below bushy eyebrows, with a mane of tight curly tufts above a collar suspending a single bell clutched in the mouth of a lion-head mask, further flanked by tassles, tied around the neck with ribbon ends trailing down the back side, its long bushy tail swept to the side, the female playfully pressing her cub under her left paw, the male clutching a beribboned brocade ball beneath his powerful right paw, both supported on an integral rectangular base with a brocade ground female: 160 by 72.5 by 118.7 cm., 63 by 28 1/2 by 46 3/4 in. male: 157.5 by 75 by 117 cm., 62 by 29 1/2 by 46 in. each weigh approximately 2 metric tons
AN EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF MASSIVE MARBLE FU LIONS LATE MING DYNASTY the imposing pair modelled as male and female beasts, each chisled from single blocks of white marble, seated on its haunches with its jaws open snarling, exposing a full mouth of teeth and a broad curled tongue, the bulging eyes peering from below bushy eyebrows, with a mane of tight curly tufts above a collar suspending a single bell clutched in the mouth of a lion-head mask, further flanked by tassles, tied around the neck with ribbon ends trailing down the back side, its long bushy tail swept to the side, the female playfully pressing her cub under her left paw, the male clutching a beribboned brocade ball beneath his powerful right paw, both supported on an integral rectangular base with a brocade ground female: 160 by 72.5 by 118.7 cm., 63 by 28 1/2 by 46 3/4 in. male: 157.5 by 75 by 117 cm., 62 by 29 1/2 by 46 in. each weigh approximately 2 metric tons
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