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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION 十七世紀
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND SUPERBLY 楊玉璇及其作坊製
CARVED SET OF SOAPSTONE FIGURES OF THE 壽山石雕十八羅漢一套
EIGHTEEN LUOHAN
BY YANG YUXUAN AND HIS STUDIO, 17TH 其一：《玉璿》款
CENTURY
來源：
comprising a figure of Pindola rendered seated beside his 香港蘇富比1999年11月1日，編號518
vehicle tiger with his right hand resting on his knee, the beast
depicted recumbent with one paw resting on its master’s 出版：
knee, the luohan portrayed dressed in loose robes cascading 《香港蘇富比三十週年》，香港，2003年，圖版392
in voluminous folds, all the details meticulously etched, the
reverse of the figure incised Yuxuan, the stone of a creamy-
beige colour with a pale honey-brown section skilfully used
for the tiger; the remaining seventeen figures possibly by
Yang Yuxuan’s studio, each carved seated in meditative
or relaxed poses and dressed in loose monastic robes
with precisely etched floral borders, accompanied by their
respective animals or holding their characteristic attributes,
some with implements carved on the side, including alms
bowls resting on jagged rockwork, the lustrous stones of
variegated beige-brown mottled with shades of russet red
skilfully used to incorporate into the designs, wood stands
5.2 to 6.8 cm, 2 to 2⅝ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 1st November 1999, lot 518.
LITERATURE
Sotheby’s: Thirty Years in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2003, pl
392.
HK$ 15,000,000-20,000,000
US$ 1,920,000-2,550,000