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A PALE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF FOREIGNER, SMALL Provenance
BUDDHIST LION AND KNEELING FIGURE Spink & Son Ltd., London
17th Century A Private English Collector in the US., 1970’s to the present day
The foreigner bent slightly forward and resting on a short crutch held
in his right hand, dressed in rich robes and with a large cape tied at 出處：
his chest and running over his right shoulder and spreading like a 倫敦 Spink & Son Ltd.
sail around his body to his outstretched left arm upon which sits a 美國英裔私人收藏，1970 年代至今
superbly detailed Buddhistic lion, a Buddhist attendant kneels before
him offering a ribboned ball, the cape cut very thinly in places to For a white jade luohan and Buddhistic lion group dated to the
silhouette parts of the design. seventeenth century, see Christie’s, Hong Kong, ‘The Gerald Godfrey
3 3/4in high (9.5cm) high Private Collection of Fine Chinese Jades’, 30 October 1995, lot 876.
The ear-ringed louhan wears a wide cape across his shoulders and
$10,000 - 15,000 holds a brocaded ball in one hand and touches a Buddhistic lion’s
back with the other. Like our group, it appears to represent the tiger
tamer, po-lo-to-she, with the tiger cub now represented as a fully
十七世紀 青玉胡人 Sinicized fu-lion. Special features of this particular type of luohan
appear to relate to the depictions of central Asian figures and tribute
bearers, with their ‘foreign’ appearance and the c-form diadem and
parted curly hair.

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