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2. Komainu - Wikipedia

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   The first lion statue in India appears around the 3rd century BC on top of a column erected by King Ashoka. [11] The tradition later arrived in China where it developed into the guardian lion that was later exported to Korea, Japan, and Okinawa. During the Nara period (710–794), as in the rest of Asia, the pair always consisted of two lions. [12]

3. Cultural depictions of lions - Wikipedia

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   In Cambodia statues of lions flanking the temple gate or access roads are commonly found in temples of Angkor. Bakong, a stepped pyramid Hindu temple from earlier period also displays lion statues as guardians of each stage on each of the cardinal points. Khmer lion guardian statues are commonly found in Angkor Wat, Bayon, Pre Rup and Srah ...

4. Chinese guardian lions - Wikipedia

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   Statues of guardian lions have traditionally stood in front of Chinese Imperial palaces, Imperial tombs, government offices, temples, and the homes of government officials and the wealthy, and were believed to have powerful mythic protective benefits. They are also used in other artistic contexts, for example on door-knockers, and in pottery.

5. Maiwand Lion - Wikipedia

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   The Maiwand Lion is a sculpture and war memorial in the Forbury Gardens, a public park in the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire.The statue was named after the Battle of Maiwand and was unveiled in December 1886 to commemorate the deaths of 329 men from the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot during the campaign in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in Afghanistan between 1878 and 1880.

6. Slottslejonen - Wikipedia

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   Lion statues in 1692. The lions were created by the French sculptor Bernard Foucquet the Elder, who worked on sculptural projects for Stockholm Palace during the years 1696–1706 and 1707–1711. [2] Foucquet used as his model the Medici lions—two marble lions of antique origin, erected in 1598 at the Villa Medici in Rome, later moved to the ...

7. Category:Sculptures of lions - Wikipedia

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   Lion de la Feuillée (Montreal) Lion Fountain (Floriana) Lion Gate; Lion Monument; Lion of Al-lāt; Lion of Amphipolis; Lion of Babylon (statue) Lion of Belfort; Lion of Belfort (Montreal) Lion of Bienservida; Lion of Knidos; Lion of Mari; Lion with a Snake; Lion's Head (Benguet) Lion's Mound; Lions at the Dvortsovaya pier; Löwe (sculpture ...