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TWO PAINTED WOOD FIGURES OF LUOHAN
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
Both fgures are shown seated, one with his hands hidden with the sleeves of his priest’s robes as he sits
on a rockwork base above a seated lion that looks up at him, the other has one knee raised while leaning on
a rocky outcropping that rises from the rockwork base. Both have extensive pigments remaining.
20º in. (51 cm.) high
(2)
$15,000-25,000
PROVENANCE
John Sparks, London, June 1985.
Two related seated wood fgures of luohan, each with a dedicatory inscription, are illustrated in
Zhongguo Meishu Quanji - Diao shu pian 5 - Wudai Song diao su, Beijing, 1988, pp. 40-41. Compare, also,
a group of painted stucco fgures of seated luohan illustrated ibid. pp. 44-54, each individually carved
with an expressive face and gestures, and the group shown within a temple context, pp. 42-43.
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