A PAIR of medieval lions from the funerary monument of Charles V of France will be offered by Christie’s at the Exceptional sale in London on July 6.
The auction house has high hopes they could make at least as much as the €4.4m (£3.67m) bid by the Louvre for a pair of marble mourners from the tomb of the Duc de Berry (brother of Charles V) at Christie’s Paris last year.
The addorsed figures of seated beasts would have been placed at the feet of the king’s effigy, one of a group of four family tombs commissioned by the young Charles V for the Basilica of Saint Denis in Paris.