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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ce BCA, post: 3708760, member: 18716&quot;]As others have mentioned they are Japanese so would be called Shishi Lions.&nbsp; They are for standing guard and repelling spirits (rather than being bookends).&nbsp; Blooey is right that you see these marked Kutani, although the style isn&#039;t anything like the traditional Kutani we think of and much more resembles late Satsuma ware.&nbsp; You get versions with impressed marks, paper stickers and enamelled marks.&nbsp; The earlier ones are Japanese and then sometime around the 70&#039;s or 80&#039;s they started to be made in China and you can find ones with labels for China.&nbsp; The early ones appear to be inter-war and they are still made today.&nbsp; The Chinese copies are very similar and unless marked are hard to tell apart from the Japanese ones.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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