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Lot Essay
A similar Yaozhou figure of a lion from the Calmann Collection, now in the collection of the Musée Guimet, Paris, is illustrated in Terre de Neige, de Glace, et d’Ombre: Quatorze siècles d’histoire de la céramique chinoise à travers les collections du Musée Guimet, Taipei, 1999, p. 61, no. 23, where it is dated Northern Song.
See, also, the fragment of a Yaozhou censer with a lion cover, discovered at the Yaozhou kiln site in Huangpu, illustrated in Wu dai Huangpu yao zhi (Excavations of the Five Dynasties Period Kiln-Site at Huangpu in Tongchuan, Shaanxi), Beijing, 1997, and in line drawings on p. 139, pl. 75-1, with description on p. 137. Other fragments of very similar lions found at the Huangpu kilns are illustrated in Song dai Yaozhou yao zhi (The Yaozhou Kiln Site of the Song Period), Beijing, 1998, pl. 120, nos. 1-3, and in line drawings on pp. 400-401, pls. 197-4, 197-5, and 198-1, with descriptions on p. 399.
See, also, the fragment of a Yaozhou censer with a lion cover, discovered at the Yaozhou kiln site in Huangpu, illustrated in Wu dai Huangpu yao zhi (Excavations of the Five Dynasties Period Kiln-Site at Huangpu in Tongchuan, Shaanxi), Beijing, 1997, and in line drawings on p. 139, pl. 75-1, with description on p. 137. Other fragments of very similar lions found at the Huangpu kilns are illustrated in Song dai Yaozhou yao zhi (The Yaozhou Kiln Site of the Song Period), Beijing, 1998, pl. 120, nos. 1-3, and in line drawings on pp. 400-401, pls. 197-4, 197-5, and 198-1, with descriptions on p. 399.