A Pair of Chinese Porcelain Foo Lions

20th century, with light bluish-celadon glaze, playful but fierce foo lions have their front legs mounting a large ball with reticulated coin motif, the lions have curls around their face, tail, and back legs, their mouths are slightly open showing their sharp teeth tongues, hollow to interior.

9 1/4 in.

Private Collection, Wilmington, North Carolina

One marked to the underside with numbers.