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A FINE PALE GREEN JADE CARVING OF A LUOHAN It has been argued that the popularity of the subject of luohans in jade
IN A GROTTO carvings was partially due to a woodblock print on the theme, printed in
18th century the 18th century catalogue Gu yu tu pu (古玉圖譜), spuriously attributed
Crisply carved as a remote mountain grove with fruiting peach trees, to the Emperor Gaozong (1127-1162). It is also likely that highly prized
enclosing a lone luohan holding a fan in one hand and seated cross- rubbings of engravings of the Sixteen Arhats taken from Shengyin Temple
legged in meditation beside a waterfall, the back also with pine and (which were based on a set of paintings by Ding Guanpeng (1708-1771)
wutong trees growing from craggy rocks, the stone of pale greenish- and were themselves originally based on paintings by Guan Xiu (852-913),
white tone with concentrated areas of milky mottling and light grey stimulated jade carvers to illustrate the subject; see J.Rawson, Chinese
patches, wood stand. 14.5cm (5 3/4in) high (2). Jade: From the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pp.409-411; see
also Jade: From Emperors to Art Deco, Paris, 2016, pp.196-201.
£15,000 - 20,000
CNY130,000 - 180,000 For a related jade carving featuring a luohan meditating within a rock
formation, Qing dynasty, see the Compendium of Collections in the Palace
Museum: Jade, 8, Beijing, 2011, p.122. Another jade carving of a luohan,
十八世紀 青玉羅漢坐窟山子 Qing dynasty, with an Imperial inscription, is illustrated in The Refined Taste
of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the
Provenance: a Spanish private collection 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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