Details
Each censer is formed as a stout Buddhist lion sitting on its haunches, the front legs braced, and cast with flames and cloud-like scrolls on the body. The separately cast head opens on a hinge at the front of the neck, and is cast with thin flames coiling out from the open mouth and a thickly curling mane and brows. The tail is also separately cast with two rows of curling tufts of hair.
14 in. (35.6 cm.) high; 1334 in. (34.8 cm.) high


Provenance
Mr. J.S. Gillen Collection, before 1959.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned in 1959.
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