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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED This fgure would likely have belonged to a set of sixteen or eighteen fgures, each
PRIVATE COLLECTION representing a diferent luohan with his distinguishing features. Other related stoneware
fgures of luohan include one sold at Sotheby’s New York, 4 December 1984, lot 116, and
1233 two other related fgures sold at Christie’s: the frst in Hong Kong, 2 November 1999, lot
A PAINTED STONEWARE FIGURE 766, and the second in New York, 26 March 2010, lot 1238. A stoneware fgure, dated late
OF A SEATED LUOHAN Ming (1368-1644) or early Qing (1644-1911) dynasty, 17th-18th century, and with a TL test
LATE MING DYNASTY, date of 1600-1800 C.E., in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, is illustrated by D.
16TH-17TH CENTURY Leidy and D. Strahan in Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2010, p. 185, no. A65.
The demonstrative fgure is shown
seated with right arm raised and bent Each of these fgures is roughly the same size, are all high-fred and have been cold
at the elbow and the hand held in a fst, painted with colored pigments. The close similarity in the sizes of the fgures, and the
while the left hand rests on his knee. style of the drapery, may suggest these fgures all belonged to the same set.
He wears loose monk’s robes, and his
face is well modeled in a grimace. There The fgure sold in 1984 was dated to the Song dynasty at the time of sale, while the fgure
are traces of red, green and fesh-toned sold in 1999 was dated Ming dynasty or earlier, and the fgure sold in 2010 was dated
pigments, with details in black. Song-Ming dynasty, 12th-16th century. Current scholarship suggests a Ming dynasty date,
16th-17th century, is appropriate for these fgures.
18¬ in. (47.3 cm.) high
Oxford thermoluminescence test no. C110n22 is consistent with the dating of this lot.
$12,000-18,000
晚明 瓷塑加彩羅漢坐像
PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 29 November 1990,
lot 64.
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