18TH CENTURY
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A BAMBOO CARVING OF THE LUOHAN BANTUOJIA QUELLING A DRAGON
18th Century
Carved from a single piece of bamboo, the crouching figure with one knee raised, one hand resting on the knee holding the celestial pearl, the other placed on the scaly four-clawed dragon coiled around his waist, dressed in loose robes knotted at mid-chest, and high boots, the face with bulging eyes, and pronounced nose and mouth open in a grimace, below furrowed brow and bald head
7in. (18cm.) high, box
18th Century
Carved from a single piece of bamboo, the crouching figure with one knee raised, one hand resting on the knee holding the celestial pearl, the other placed on the scaly four-clawed dragon coiled around his waist, dressed in loose robes knotted at mid-chest, and high boots, the face with bulging eyes, and pronounced nose and mouth open in a grimace, below furrowed brow and bald head
7in. (18cm.) high, box
Exhibited
Chinese Bamboo Carving, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, and illustrated by Ip Yee and Lawrence C. S. Tam in the Catalogue, no. 134, p. 403 and col. pl. 38