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increasingly popular from the Song
dynasty (960-1279). Li Song in ‘From
the Northern Song to the Qing’, Chinese
Sculpture, New Haven, 2006, pp. 389,
suggests that during the Song dynasty,
various Buddhist schools were eager to
trace their lineages to Shakyamuni; thus
luohan, with their direct connections
to the Historical Buddha, became the
ultimate iconographic bridge to the
Indian founders of Buddhism. Also with
the growing patronage of Buddhist
iconography in exchange for spiritual
merit, luohan figures of imposing
size and realistic physiognomy were
increasingly produced in various
mediums, such as ceramic, stucco and
stone. They would have been displayed
in groups of sixteen, eighteen or even
five hundred in temples and caves to
encourage devotees to reach a state of
1
deep meditation.

Compare a closely related head of a luohan, in the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden, illustrated in Hai-wai
yi-chen / Chinese Art in Overseas Collections: Buddhist Sculpture 1, Taipei, 1986, pl. 14 (fig. 1). Further
stone heads of luohan include a smaller limestone example sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 5th April 2016,
lot 2835; and two smaller marble heads sold in these rooms, the first, 23rd March 2004, lot 630, and
the other, from the collection of C.T. Loo & Co. and J.T. Tai & Co, 22nd March 2011, lot 270 and again, 19th
September 2011, lot 319. See also a head of a luohan attributed to the Ming dynasty, in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, accession number 60.74.

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Fig. 1 A closely related head of a luohan, in the Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden. Collection Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen. Coll. no.
RV-3066-1
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