This large oval pedestal bowl is carved from cream-colored marble with numerous veins of deep blue and light brown. The sides of the bowl taper down to its base on the pedestal and its rim is flared. The pedestal is low-set and has a rimmed top, a slightly flared stem, and a circular foot. It sits on a small square stand carved from the same marble. At each end of the oval, a lion hangs on, propped on its front legs and holding on by its front paws. The lions’ heads and shoulders face into the bowl while their lean bodies drape down over the sides with their rear paws reaching under the base of the bowl. Carvings indicate the lions’ ears, manes, and claws. The lion to our left is positioned with its head leaning down and in; there are two fairly significant holes in its face. The lion to our right is positioned such that its head rears back with its jaws wide open, as if in a roar.