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PROPERTY FROM THE WILLIAM S. ARNETT COLLECTION, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
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A CARVED GREENISH-GREY AND RUSSET JADE BOULDER
18TH CENTURY
The thick ‘boulder’ of irregular section is carved in high relief with a luohan wrapped in his
voluminous robe seated on a woven mat in a deep grotto, with a leafy branch growing from
the rock face above the opening and with a crane in fight to the side. The reverse is deeply
carved with further branches growing from the mountain side. There are large areas of the
russet skin that highlight the carving as well as opaque areas of creamy russet color.
9º in. (23.5 cm.) wide, cloth box
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE
William S. Arnett Collection, Atlanta, Georgia, acquired prior to 1971.
EXHIBITED
On loan: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1973 to September 1980.
清十八世紀 灰青玉雕羅漢山子

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