清康熙 德化白釉佛獅香插兩件

modeled similarly, each animated figure with one paw raised on a brocade-patterned ball, raised on squared bases (2)

Eymery & Cie.，巴黎（據標籤）

Both lions with firing cracks, as well as small chips and frits to the extremities, most significantly to the tails. There are scattered firing imperfections to both. The lion of the left of the catalogue illustration with a 1 cm wide chip to the left ear, and losses to 2 sections of the tail.
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For similar examples compare two in the Hickley Collection, illustrated in Rose Kerr and John Ayers, Blanc de Chine: Porcelain from Dehua, Chicago, 2002, pls 90 and 91.