Chinese Antique Pair of Green Stone Fu Foo Temple Dogs Guardian Lions or Shishi grand tour art

Chinese Antique Pair of Green Stone Fu Foo Temple Dogs Guardian Lions or Shishi grand tour artA very beautiful pair of hard stone temple lions with ball in mouth. The lions are building guardians made in hard green stone which has has beautiful grains. They are very skillfully hand carved and feature intricate details including curled hair and tusked mouths with little teeth. The lions are male and female. Males has a ball under paw and female has cub under paw. These represent supremacy in the male and nurture by the female. Ying and yang

Inspection of the glass condition found there are some surface marks and scratches that are commensurate with age

set against a colored background

No chips cracks or restoration there are very small losses to the gold that is minor

These vases

who renamed it Albert Stahl & Co

and societal judgment

Inspection found the piece to be in very good condition with no chips cracks or restoration

Condition~ This is inspected and found to be in very good condition

particularly floral motifs

and 17 7 1/22 or 44

often collaborating with other artists like Emily Partington

In very good antique condition