北齊 石灰石浮雕獅頭殘石

the greyish stone with traces of a white layer and ochre pigment, naturalistically carved in the form of a lion head, set with bulging expressive eyes within thin brows, a broad snout with flared nostrils, above a wide grinning mouth closed with a cleft upper lip, all below raised pricked ears, stepped wood stand

購於五十至六十年代

可比兩獅頭例，或曾作為門柱支撐，僅頭部及正面完整雕琢，後部作為底座，見 Osvald Sirén，《Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century》，卷1，紐約，1970年，圖版434a及434b，前者屬巴黎 Octave Homberg 典藏，後者乃紐約私人收藏。