Lot Essay
An album leaf of similar quality, which also depicts a luohan, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3785.
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17TH CENTURY
Details
A FINELY EMBROIDERED ALBUM LEAF
17TH CENTURY
The panel is finely embroidered in satin stitch on a cream silk ground with a luohan dressed in a voluminous robe seated on a mat with hands held in anjalimudra, his forehead with a protuberance above the long eyebrows, and with a scripture left open on a rock before him.
11 5/8 x 9 in. (29.5 x 22.9 cm.), matted
17TH CENTURY
The panel is finely embroidered in satin stitch on a cream silk ground with a luohan dressed in a voluminous robe seated on a mat with hands held in anjalimudra, his forehead with a protuberance above the long eyebrows, and with a scripture left open on a rock before him.
11 5/8 x 9 in. (29.5 x 22.9 cm.), matted
Provenance
Linda Wrigglesworth, London.