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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A LARGE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE SEATED LUOHAN
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The smiling deities modeled seated, each wearing a patterned cape
over colorful robes and with pendulous earlobes, one with ruyi sceptre,
the other with fy whisk and one foot raised to his lap
16æ in. (42.5 cm.) high (2)
$40,000-60,000
These very large fgures may have been part of a set of eighteen
luohan, or Buddhist ‘enlightened ones’ - certainly an important
commission. With their sweetly smiling, fnely rendered heads and
large scale, these luohan relate to a small group of later 18th century
standing fgures of high quality, such as those in the Ionides collection
at Buxted Park, Sussex, illustrated by Jourdain and Jenyns in Chinese
Export Art, pp. 110-111.
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