Wonderful Bisque Lion, Presumed Japanese antique charcoal 1837)—the super bright and very

1837)—the super bright and very entrepreneurial youngest child of Durs Rudy (a Swiss immigrant who kept a store and hotel

Really a lovely one to live with a think

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Wonderful Bisque Lion, Presumed Japanese antique charcoal 1837)—the super bright and veryLove at first sight with this lounging lion, whose face and posture and attitude strike me as just right. I have done some searching but found no match of him out there; I think he is likely Japanese based on the exposed bisque underside, but there is no mark anywhere that I see. He's quite well done, with fine incised texture for the fur, and nicely variegated graduated color, from the red of the mane and tail to the brown of the body. A bit of a