Guardian Lion Copper alloy Khmer, Angkor Period

Spink and Son Ltd, London, acquired 1988

Pale green patination on bronze surface, rough and corroded with soil encrustation. Small area of bronze disease on the right front leg and front left claw. Base plate thin and unevenly broken around the edges. No restoration.
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For a similar example see Emma C. Bunker and Douglas Latchford, Adoration and Glory; The Golden Age of Khmer Art, Thailand, 2004, pp. 377-379, fig. 137a, and for a stone example see P. Pal, Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum Volume 3, Art of Sri Lanka & Southeast Asia, Yale University Press, 2004, pp. 216-217, fig. 170.