Riding in with Carter provenance
This pair of Qianlong (1735-96) cloisonné standing lion dogs with riders came for sale at Heritage (25% buyer’s premium) with a provenance to George Ann Brown Carter, wife of media scion Amon Giles Carter Jr (1919-82) of Fort Worth, Texas.
He had often worked with famed Asian art dealer CT Loo and his successor Frank Caro to build the f…