A CAST IRON HEAD OF A LOHAN

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A CAST IRON HEAD OF A LOHAN
12/14TH CENTURY

Cast with peaceful, benign expression, the round face with arched eyebrows, smooth rounded nose, small mouth and pendulous ears, traces of surface gesso and gilding, surface erosion--8in. (20.3cm.) high, stand

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For a head of similar proportions, with crisply arched eyebrows, full lids and small mouth see the Yingqing figure of a seated Bodhisattva from the Rietberg Museum, Sherman E. Lee and Wai-Kam Ho, Chinese Art under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), 1968, pl. 25. A seated Sakyamuni in gilded dry lacquer, ibid., pl. 19, also displays similar facial features