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TWO FAMILLE ROSE SEATED FIGURES OF LUOHAN
18TH CENTURY

清十八世紀 粉彩羅漢坐像一組兩件

One fgure wears a long fowing robe enamelled in yellow, edged with lavender blue, with an outer purple
robe decorated with foral medallions. His rounded face is depicted with eyes downcast and a smiling
expression. The other luohan wears a similarly decorated foral robe of light blue and pink. Both are
featured sitting on seats in imitation of large jagged rocks, enamelled in turquoise with the details picked
out in black.

12Ω in. (32 cm.) high (2)
£60,000-80,000
$92,000-120,000
€82,000-110,000

Compare the present lot to a famille rose fgure of Budai, decorated in a similar style and also modelled
seated on a rocky throne, dated to the Qianlong period (1736-1795), sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29
October, 1991. Also see a comparable famille rose fgure of a bearded scholar included in the exhibition
Ch’ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection held in November 1973-February 1974 at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong, illustrated in the Catalogue, Hong Kong, 1973, pl. 119.

Compare also to three Qianlong-period famille rose fgures of Buddha, one from the Helene Terrien
Collection and sold at Christies Hong Kong, 31 October 2000, lot 924; one at Christies Hong Kong, 28
May 2014, lot 3465; and one from the J.M. Hu Collection, sold at Sothebys New York, 4 June 1985, lot 70.

See also two very similar seated Luohans dated to the Yongzheng period, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3
June 2015, lot 3020.

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