Indian and Southeast Asian Works of Art

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Lot 248
  • 248

Rampant Lion Sandstone Vietnam, Cham Period

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Rampant Lion
  • Sandstone
  • Height: 28 1/2 in (72.4 cm)
A lion rearing up onto its hind legs in a ferocious attitude, teeth and genitals exposed, its mane tufted to a point on the head, in two layers of tufts on the chest and the fur sculpted over the knees.

Provenance

Acquired 1970

Catalogue Note

This figure is probably a telamon due to its frontal position. Compare to an example published in Pierre Baptiste and Thierry Zéphir, Trésors d'art du Vietnam: la sculpture du Champa Ve - XVe siècles, Guimet, Paris, 2005, p. 248, fig. 37.