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Junkunc: Chinese Jade Carvings
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 09:30 AM EDT

Lot 208

A PALE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF A SEATED LUOHAN, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 USD

A PALE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF A SEATED LUOHAN
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
清康熙 青白玉雕羅漢坐像

depicted with a grimacing facial expression and long pierced earlobes, seated with his left knee raised and leaning onto the right
hand, the body draped in loose robes, his left arm bent and the hand holding a ribboned pouch, the stone a translucent pale
celadon with faint icy-white veins

Height 2¼ in., 5.6 cm

Provenance
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

來源
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Catalogue Note
Compare a similar jade luohan figure holding an alms bowl attributed to Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century, from the Tuyet Nguyet
Collection, included in the exhibition Virtuous Treasures: Chinese Jades for the Scholar's Table, University Museum and Art Gallery,
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2008, cat. no. 118, subsequently sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 31st May 2018, lot 579;
another seated figure clutching a strand of prayer beads and a lingzhi staff, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 27th April 1999, lot 393,

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