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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED
AMERICAN COLLECTION
顯赫美國珍藏
2891
AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE PAIR
OF GILT-BRONZE SEATED
LUOHAN FIGURES
YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY,
13TH-15TH CENTURY
Each figure is superbly cast, one wearing
a monastic robe crossed at the chest and
secured above the waist with a bowed
drawstring and falling in naturalistic folds
around the protruding feet, the hands raised
in abhaya and varada mudras, the face with
a calm and serene expression, the interior
is inscribed zuo si, ‘left four’. The other
with a more pronounced cranium, wearing
long robes ranging from one shoulder and
wound around the upper waist leaving the
chest bare, the hands in similar mudras,
the interior inscribed you si, ‘right four’.
33º in. (85 cm) and 33Ω in. (87.6 cm.) high,
respectively (2)
HK$12,000,000-18,000,000
US$1,600,000-2,300,000

P R O V E NAN C E :
Offered at Christie’s Hong Kong,
29 September 1992, lot 896
A & J Speelman Ltd. Oriental Art, London,
1 April 1998

元/明初 鎏金銅羅漢坐像一對
來源:
拍賣於香港佳士得，1992年9月29日，
拍品896號
A & J Speelman Ltd. Oriental Art，
倫敦，1998年4月1日

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