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Shishi with a sphere. Ivory Signed on a square bar between the strong hind paws: Masakata A muscular shishi with long, curly fur and swirled tail, the jaws open, supporting itself with its forepaws on a large, open-worked ball. Height 3.2 cm Private collection, Rhineland, acquired at Flachsmann, Kronberg Compare the signature in: MCI, p. 416. The present piece is of better quality than Meinertzhagen’s entry suggests. Lazarnick, on the other hand, illustrates a similarly strong model of a baku, p. 706, many details of which are comparable with the present lot.