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A very fine bamboo-root 'Buddhist lion and cub' carving 18th century
30 May 2017, 15:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific PlaceHK$150,000 - HK$200,000
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A very fine bamboo-root 'Buddhist lion and cub' carving
18th century
Intricately carved in the form of a large recumbent Buddhist lion playing with a brocaded ball, the mother depicted snarling protectively with one cub balanced precariously on her back, distracting her from the other cub emerging playfully on the other side in attempt to snatch the ball, the root bamboo of a darkened cocoa-brown colour, wood stand and fitted box. 8.5cm (3 3/8in) wide (3).
Intricately carved in the form of a large recumbent Buddhist lion playing with a brocaded ball, the mother depicted snarling protectively with one cub balanced precariously on her back, distracting her from the other cub emerging playfully on the other side in attempt to snatch the ball, the root bamboo of a darkened cocoa-brown colour, wood stand and fitted box. 8.5cm (3 3/8in) wide (3).
Footnotes
十八世紀 竹根雕戲球獅
Provenance:
An important Asian private collection
來源：
重要亞洲私人收藏
A larger Buddhist lion or dashi (大獅) and a smaller Buddhist lion or xiaoshi (小獅) playing with a brocade ball, form the rebus 'may you and your descendant achieve high rank', taishi shaoshi (太師少師). During the Western Zhou dynasty, taishi was the highest military rank of the period; during the Warring States period, the Kingdom of Chu established the rank of shaoshi, which represents the tutor to the prince.
Compare a similar bamboo carving of a Buddhist lion playing with a brocade ball and cub, by Shi Qiji, 18th/early 19th century, and another related carving of a Buddhist lion and cub, 17th/18th century, illustrated by L.C.S. Tam, Chinese Bamboo Carving, vol.I, Hong Kong, 1978, pp.100, 342-343 and 348-349. For another related example, Qing dynasty, see Ming and Qing Chinese Arts from the C.P. Lin Collection, Hong Kong, 2014, pl.188.
取竹根雕刻而成，圓雕二獅戲球，大獅前爪抱繡球，蹲伏回首，兩隻小獅伏大獅後背兩側，鬃毛細膩，繡球雖小，猶作鏤空，不愧為匠心之作。
參看一件十八世紀/十九世紀早期時其吉刻竹根雕戲球獅，及另一件十七/十八世紀竹根雕太獅少獅，著錄於葉義、譚志成，《中國竹刻藝術》，卷一，香港，1978年，頁100，342-243及348-349。另見香港長青館藏一件清代竹根雕大獅小獅，著錄於《長青館藏明清瓷、玉、角、竹、畫琺瑯》，香港，2014年，圖版188。