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A SOAPSTONE FIGURE OF A LUOHAN
18TH CENTURY
Shown seated with one leg raised, leaning against a gnarled trunk growing from the rock-form platform on which he sits, his long fingers grasping a fan and a fly whisk, wearing voluminous, long-sleeved robes finely incised with floral borders and widely spaced cloud clusters falling open at the chest to expose the under-robe tied at the midriff, his long face carved with smiling expression and finely dotted with stubble, the softly polished stone of yellowish-green tone with reddish-brown mottling
7¾in. (19.7cm.) high
18TH CENTURY
Shown seated with one leg raised, leaning against a gnarled trunk growing from the rock-form platform on which he sits, his long fingers grasping a fan and a fly whisk, wearing voluminous, long-sleeved robes finely incised with floral borders and widely spaced cloud clusters falling open at the chest to expose the under-robe tied at the midriff, his long face carved with smiling expression and finely dotted with stubble, the softly polished stone of yellowish-green tone with reddish-brown mottling
7¾in. (19.7cm.) high