Lot 163
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A RARE LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF A LUOHAN
A RARE LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF A LUOHAN

SONG DYNASTY

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A RARE LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF A LUOHAN
Song Dynasty
The seated figure shown staring with intense expression enhanced by the inlaid black glass eyes, wearing priest's robes falling in graceful folds around the body, with remnants of a fabric layer, the surface now a reddish-brown color
25in. (64.8cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the dry lacquer figure of a seated luohan in the Honolulu Academy of Arts dated to the second year of Yuan Fu (1100), Northern Song, illustrated by Saburo Matsubara, Chuugoku Bukkyo Chokukushi Ron (The Path of Chinese Buddhist Sculpture), Tokyo, 1995, pp. 832-833. The same figure is also illustrated in Hai-Wai Yi-Zhen - Fo-Xiang, (Chinese Art in Overseas Collections - Buddhist Sculpture II), Taipei, 1990, p. 167, no. 157.