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Ceramic vase with two handles & lion design from Tunisia (early 3rdC) at Arles Antiquities Museum. Arles, France. | Ceramic plate painted with lion (mid 12thC) from Greece or Aegean Island at Bode Museum. Berlin, Germany. | Earthenware bowl with mythic winged sphinx with lion body & human face (12thC) from Iran at Five Continents Museum. Munich, Germany. | Earthenware bowl depicting lion (12th-13thC) from Iran at San Antonio Museum of Art. San Antonio, TX. |
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Ceramic vase with wings & heraldic lion (c1465) from Spain at Cluny Museum. Paris, France. | Fritware bottle with raised design of hunter capturing lion with rope (early 17thC) from Iran at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. | Lion plate (early 17thC) from Iznik at Sèvres National Ceramic Museum. Paris, France. | Fritware dish painted with lion & flowers (17thC) from Iznik, Turkey at Aga Khan Museum. Toronto, ON. |
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Ceramic heating stove with lion base at Lindau Municipal Museum. Lindau im Bodensee, Germany. | Porcelain plate from yellow lion service (1734) by Meissen Porcelain Manuf. of Germany at Legion of Honor Museum. San Francisco, CA. | Meissen porcelain terrine with lion lid handle (1735-7) by Johann Joachim Kaendler plus other pieces from Graf Sulkowski table service at Meissen porcelain museum at Lustheim Palace. Munich, Germany. | Meissen porcelain lidded terrine with lion head handles & yellow tiger pattern (c1745-50) beside bowl in yellow tiger (aka Gelber Löwe) pattern after Japanese style at Meissen porcelain museum at Lustheim Palace. Munich, Germany. |
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Meissen porcelain blue teapot painted with red & yellow Chinese lion at Meissen porcelain museum at Lustheim Palace. Munich, Germany. | Chinese import porcelain covered serving dish (1736-95) with Lyon coat of arms crest with unicorn & lion in Malcolm's room at Glamis Castle. Angus, Scotland. | Porcelain teapot with Lyon coat of arms crest with unicorn & lion in Malcolm's room at Glamis Castle. Angus, Scotland. | Porcelain plates with Lyon coat of arms crest with unicorn & lion in Malcolm's room at Glamis Castle. Angus, Scotland. |
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Rouen-made earthenware lion painted blue, yellow & red (c1740) at Rouen Ceramic Museum. Rouen, France. | Ceramic lion at Chateau-sur-Mer. Newport, RI. | Stoneware jar decorated with lion (c1800) from New York at Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, CT. | Stoneware crock (1855-9) painted with lion prob. by John Hilfinger of J&E Norton Pottery of Bennington, VT at Bennington Museum. Bennington, VT. |
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Aesop's Fables: The Dog and His Shadow & The Goat, Calf & Sheep in Partnership with the Lion depicted on Minton art tiles (c1875) at Taft House NHS. Cincinnati, OH. | Earthenware bulbous vase with three lions (1930) made by Villeroy & Boch at Septfontaines-lez-Luxembourg at National Museum of History & Art. Luxembourg, Luxembourg. | White porcelain coffee pot painted with lion & palm tree at Conde-Charlotte Museum. Mobile, AL. | University of Texas Battle Hall sculpted rondel with zodiac sign of lion of leo. Austin, TX. |
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Quartz lion head seat ornaments (c300-550) from western Roman Empire or the Orient at Cluny Museum. Paris, France. | Covered footed glass bowl with lion at Shelburne Museum. Shelburne, VT. |
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