Each modeled with one paw resting on a pierced brocade-patterned ball above rectangular bases. Height 33 cm.
Chips, cracks, damage to joss stick holder.
Property of a private Swedish collector, purchased at Christie's in 2001.
Compare with sculptures like these in the Royal Dresden Porzellan Collection. Museum Inventory Number; PO 2902. Palace Number/Johanneum mark; N 4 [Triangle].
Compare also a similar pair sold at Sothebys,
20 April 2018 New York. Lot 1061.
Compare similar examples in the Hickley collection, illustrated in Rose Kerr and John Ayers, Blanc de Chine: Porcelain from Dehua, Chicago, 2002, pls 90 and 91.