Lot 851
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TWO PAINTED WOOD FIGURES OF LUOHAN
TWO PAINTED WOOD FIGURES OF LUOHAN
TWO PAINTED WOOD FIGURES OF LUOHAN
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TWO PAINTED WOOD FIGURES OF LUOHAN

MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)

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TWO PAINTED WOOD FIGURES OF LUOHAN
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
Both figures are shown seated, one with his hands hidden with the sleeves of his priest's robes as he sits on a rockwork base above a seated lion that looks up at him, the other has one knee raised while leaning on a rocky outcropping that rises from the rockwork base. Both have extensive pigments remaining.
20 ¼ in. (51 cm.) high
Provenance
John Sparks, London, June 1985.

Lot Essay

Two related seated wood figures of luohan, each with a dedicatory inscription, are illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji - Diao shu pian 5 - Wudai Song diao su, Beijing, 1988, pp. 40-41. Compare, also, a group of painted stucco figures of seated luohan illustrated ibid. pp. 44-54, each individually carved with an expressive face and gestures, and the group shown within a temple context, pp. 42-43.

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