Vase with Lions and Bats in Panels

1740-1760 H: 16 1/8 in. (41 cm) Citation Source image

The soft-paste porcelain of this vase is painted and incised with two foliated panels on a faintly crackled ground. Inside one panel, a lion-dog is seated with head facing towards a pine tree that provides the beast shade. Mossy rock formations also appear in the panels. The...

Artifact

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5391
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World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904, no. 188(?); Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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en
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