Vintage home decor bookend - Fu Dog

You are viewing a 1920s highly sought after vintage   Fu dog book End. This fu dog  would look great in your office or home decor. It also makes a great book end or conversation piece. Here a a few key points about the history of the fudog (Aka,Chineese Lions.) *Foo dogs" actually originated in China,  and foo dog actually means "shi" in chineese meaning lion or "shishi" meaning  stone lion. That's because they actually resemble a Chow Chow and or  Shih Tzu  dog and thats why they started calling them foo dogs (or fu dogs) in English. *Foo dogs were originally displayed outdoors and These "Chinese guardian lions" are meant to be in pairs. * Fu dogs are symbolic, protective statues with one  female and one  male. The female represents yin and symbolically protects the people dwelling in the home, while the male represents yang, protects the structure itself. * You can tell the gender of each foo dog by examining what’s beneath the paws. The male holds a ball, the female holds a puppy. The ball represents the world and the puppy represents nature or a nurturing spirit. If it has an open mouth and the other has closed one, this may represent the in-and-out breath, or the sound of “om.” * According to the chineese tradition, There is a right way and a wrong way to position the pair. When you face the pair of foo dogs, according to feng shui, you should put the female on the left and the male on the right.   And Rumor has it that if you have a pair of foo dogs  they sh