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A RARE VERY PALE GREEN JADE INSCRIBED ‘LUOHANS
KALIKA AND ANGAJA’ BOULDER
Qianlong
Superbly carved in high relief on one side with the luohan Kalika
in crisply carved loose flowing robes, seated in a grotto beneath a
gnarled pine tree next to an inscription, holding a bell in each hand,
his right knee raised before a rocky outcrop with an incense burner,
vase with incense tools and books, the reverse with the luohan Angaja
holding a fly-whisk within a craggy grotto with further pine trees and
another inscription, all below ruyi-shaped clouds, the stone of very pale
green tone with minor russet and cloudy inclusions, stand.
16.1cm (6 5/16in) high (2).
£15,000 - 20,000
CNY130,000 - 180,000
清乾隆 青白玉雕羅漢山子

Provenance: Dunt King, Hong Kong
Dr Sigfried (Sigi) Ramler, Hong Kong and Sevenoaks, UK, acquired
from the above circa late 1940s/1950s, and thence by descent

來源：香港Dunt King舊藏
香港及英國肯特郡七橡樹鎮，Dr Sigfried (Sigi) Ramler，於約二十世紀
四五十年代購自前述藏家，並由後人保存迄今

Dr Ramler and his mother left Vienna to go to Shanghai in 1938 due to
the rise of the Nazis in Germany. From Shanghai they travelled to Hong
Kong. However, in Hong Kong he was incarcerated by the Japanese in
1942-1943. Afterwards, he continued to live in Hong Kong and retired
to Sevenoaks in the UK in 1962.

Ding Guanpeng, ‘Seventeen Paintings of
Buddha and Luohans’, the 21st year of the
Qianlong reign corresponding to 1756;
image courtesy of Shenyang Palace Museum

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