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Why lion-griffins were sometimes represented with breasts?

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Loki:
I received a pic from of a carving on wood that some guy is asking information and it reminded me my grandparents have in their dining room a table from the Empire or Directoire period with lion-griffins with breasts as feet.

However Monstropedia says that griffins are born from eggs.

Any idea??

http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Griffin.

A 9th century Irish writer by the name of Stephen Scotus asserted that griffins were highly monogamous. Not only did they mate for life, but if one partner died, the other would continue throughout the rest of its life alone, never to search out for a new mate. The griffin was thus made an emblem of the Church's views on remarriage.

The egg-laying habits of the female were first clearly described by St. Hildegard of Bingen, a German nun author of the 12th century. She outlined how the expectant mother would search out a cave with a very narrow entrance but plenty of room inside, sheltered from the elements. Here she would lay her 3 eggs (about the size of Ostrich eggs), and stand guard over them.

Its nests are made of gold and its eggs resemble

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