JIN-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY

For a comparable figure, see the marble luohan from the Jin period, dated 1180, in the Avery Brundage Collection, illustrated by d'Argencé, et al., Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1974, pl. 138, and again in Chinese Art under the Mongols, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968, pl. 17. That figure, like the current figure, has similar strong facial features, including high cheekbones and piercing eyes set off by a curly beard, mustache and brows. The realism of each is almost portraiture.