A Chinese baifurong soapstone Nagasena
Qing dynasty
The stone of creamy beige colour with a stripe of russet-red inclusion carved naturalistically into a string attached to the Arhat's robes, the Arhat with playful expression using a slender stick to clean his left ear, adorned in a loose fitting monastic robe and intricately etched with stylised foliate motifs, the stand carved out of a brown hardstone simulating vines.
11.8cm high (with stand)
The stone of creamy beige colour with a stripe of russet-red inclusion carved naturalistically into a string attached to the Arhat's robes, the Arhat with playful expression using a slender stick to clean his left ear, adorned in a loose fitting monastic robe and intricately etched with stylised foliate motifs, the stand carved out of a brown hardstone simulating vines.
11.8cm high (with stand)
Sold for
AU$ 24,400
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 清 壽山白芙蓉石雕挖耳羅漢坐像
Category: Asian Art
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