A Similar Pair of Buddhist Lions from the Collection of Winston Guest Sold in Parke-Bernet Galleries December 2, 1967, Lot # 41. A Closely Related Example of the Female Lion is in The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Two similar pairs of lion figures, included in Jan Wirgin, K'ang-Hsi Porcelain, Selected Objects from Swedish Collections, Stockholm, 1974, pls 46-7 and color plate 1, one of them, collected by Queen Hedvig Eleonora (1636-1715), also finely painted. Such level of brushwork can also be found on a pair sold at Christie’s New York, 2nd June 1994, lot 375. See also a pair of lions from the Leonard Gow collection, included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-6, cat. no. 1656.