18TH CENTURY

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A SOAPSTONE FIGURE OF A LUOHAN AND A TIGER
18TH CENTURY
The smiling figure wearing an earring shown seated beside a tame tiger, his robes incised with roundels of flowers and lotus scroll borders, his jowly face detailed with stippled mustache to match the stippled hair of the tall irregularly shaped cranium, the separately made soapstone base of rectangular form with faceted corners, incised on top with diaper pattern and with lotus scroll borders
5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) high with base

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Compare the soapstone figure of a luohan seated beside a similarly carved lion in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji; diaosu bian - 6 - Yuan Ming Qing diaosu, Beijing, 1988, p. 145, pl. 157. The piece is carved with an inscription and the mark of the carver, Kaitong. The carving of this and the present figure is quite comparable.

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