18TH CENTURY

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A WELL-CARVED SOAPSTONE FIGURE OF A LUOHAN
18TH CENTURY
Shown seated beside scrolling vapor atop a separately made quatrefoil soapstone base, holding a mala bead in the left hand while the right hand is hidden within the long sleeve of his layered robes which are incised with peony scroll borders as is his knotted scarf, with finely carved facial features detailed with black stippled mustache and incised brows below the black stippled hair
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high

拍品專文

Finely carved soapstone figures of this type in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane entered the British Museum upon his death in 1753. Three of those fourteen figures are illustrated by R. Soame Jenyns and W. Watson in Chinese Art III, New York, rev. ed., 1981, p. 209, pl. 182. The carving of the face and the stippled beard, mustache and hair of the central standing figure of a luohan in this illustration is similar to that of the present figure.
A soapstone figure in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji; diaosu bian - 6 - Yuan Ming Qing diaosu, Beijing, 1988, p. 145, pl. 157, inscribed with the mark of the carver, Kaitong, is similarly carved and shown wearing a similar knotted scarf.