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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY 女士藏品

243 Jessica Rawson argued that the popularity of the subject of luohans
A FINE PALE GREEN JADE CARVING OF A LUOHAN IN A in jade carvings was perhaps partially due to a woodblock print on the
GROTTO theme, printed in the 18th century catalogue Gu yu tu pu (古玉圖譜),
18th century spuriously attributed to the Emperor Gaozong (1127-1162). It is also
Crisply carved as a remote mountain grove with fruiting peach trees, likely that highly prized rubbings of engravings of the Sixteen Arhats
enclosing a lone Luohan holding a fan in one hand and seated cross- taken from Shengyin Temple (which were based on a set of paintings
legged in meditation beside a waterfall, the back also with pine and by Ding Guanpeng (1708-1771) and were themselves originally
wutong trees growing from craggy rocks, the stone of pale greenish- based on paintings by Guan Xiu (852-913)), stimulated jade carvers
white tone with concentrated areas of milky mottling and light grey to illustrate the subject. See J.Rawson, Chinese Jade: From the
patches, wood stand. Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pp.409-411. See also Jade: From
14.5cm (5 3/4in) high (2). Emperors to Art Deco, Paris, 2016, pp.196-201.

£30,000 - 40,000 For a related jade carving featuring a luohan meditating within a rock
CNY260,000 - 350,000 formation, Qing dynasty, see the Compendium of Collections in the
Palace Museum: Jade, 8, Beijing, 2011, p.122. Another jade carving
十八世紀 青玉羅漢坐窟圖山子 of a luohan, Qing dynasty, with an Imperial inscription, is illustrated in
The Refined Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and
Provenance: a Spanish private collection Pictorial Jades of the Ch’ing Court, Taipei, 1997, pp.148-149.

來源：西班牙私人收藏 Compare with a related jade carving of a luohan in a rocky grotto,
17th/18th century, which was sold in these rooms, 8 November 2012,
lot 24.

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please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.