Barbara Cosgrove’s Foo Dog Mini Table Lamps are smaller in size but brighter in color. Red Pepper, Caribbean Blue, Key Lime, and Watermelon make up this colorful collection of sacred goods. Made of cast resin these petite Foo Dogs stand guard atop of solid decorated block bases.
A sort of pre-modern China ‘lion’, this style of guardian statues is traditionally seen in standing guard in the front of Chinese Imperial palaces, Imperial tombs, government offices, temples, and the wealthy.
From the era of the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), they were once believed to have powerful connections to the spirits and strong protective benefits. The Foo Dogs are always presented in pairs, this is a testimony of yin and yang. This version is the ‘mini’, a smaller adaptation of the Barbara Cosgrove’s original and larger ‘Foo Dog Table Lamp’.
