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Fig. 1 Rubbing of Sixteen Arhats at Fig. 2 A similar boulder carved with Kanakavasta in the
Shengyin Temple. Courtesy of Special collection of the Wou Lien-Pai Museum and published in
Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard Rose Kerr et al., Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan
University Collection, Surrey, 2011, pl. 177.
⚾ᶨġġ俾枛⮢䫔⋩ℕ旧⽭忼⮲侭㉻䇯 ⚦Ḵġġ䌱晽▶䲵▶⶜啑⮲侭Ⱉ⫸炻⏛咖ỗ⌂䈑棐㓞啷炻夳
⑰ἃ⣏⬠伶埻⚾㚠棐䈡啷 Rose Kerr叿˪Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan
Collection˫炻啑慴悉炻2011⸜炻⚾䇰177

A strikingly similar jade boulder depicting the second luohan, Kanakavasta, accompanied by the
two imperial colophons and seals is in the collection of the Wou Lien-Pai Museum and published
in Rose Kerr et al., Chinese Antiquities from the Wou Kiuan Collection, Surrey, 2011, pl. 177 (Þ g.
2). See also a celadon jade boulder featuring the third arhat, Vanavasa, which generally follows
Guanxiu’s design and is inscribed with the two imperial colophons, plus a six-character reign
mark sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 27th April 2003, lot 22; and a related white jade boulder
also carved with the sixteenth luohan, Abheda, inscribed with an imperial eulogy and dated to
1758, from the Crystalite Collection sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30th May 2016, lot 3021. A
white jade ‘luohan’ boulder, also from the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, but carved
with a design not derived from Guanxiu’s series, sold at Christie’s New York, 20th March 2019,
lot 823.

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