A FINELY EMBROIDERED ALBUM LEAF
Lot 2061

A FINELY EMBROIDERED ALBUM LEAF

17TH CENTURY

Closed18 September 2015

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USD 7,500

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A FINELY EMBROIDERED ALBUM LEAF
17TH CENTURY
The panel is finely embroidered in satin stitch on a cream silk ground with a luohan dressed in a voluminous robe seated on a mat with hands held in anjalimudra, his forehead with a protuberance above the long eyebrows, and with a scripture left open on a rock before him.
11 5/8 x 9 in. (29.5 x 22.9 cm.), matted

Linda Wrigglesworth, London.

Specialist note

An album leaf of similar quality, which also depicts a luohan, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3785.