Galerie Alexis Renard
Antiquités - Arts d’Orient - Curiosités

In the form of a mythological lion on a lotus base with a beaded frieze, the powerful beast is adorned with beaded trappings above a dancing female figure with her arms raised. His head is turned to the back with a ferocious face, with stepped upturned moustache and bulging eyes, The wide mouth showing large fangs.

The back of the throne leg is decorated with a Kirttimukha head and a scene showing a lion fighting with an elephant.

For a related example see Pal, Elephants and ivories, 1981, p 85 n° 81