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A fine pale green jade carving of a luohan in a grotto 17th/18th century image 1
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A fine pale green jade carving of a luohan in a grotto
17th/18th century

Fine Chinese Art
8 November 2012, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A fine pale green jade carving of a luohan in a grotto

17th/18th century
The well-polished stone crisply carved in varying levels of relief with a luohan dressed in loose robes seated in a rocky grotto, holding a staff in his right hand with a sutra on his left knee, surrounded by pine and wutong trees finely carved on the side and the reverse, wood stand.
16.1cm (6 1/3in) high (2).

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Provenance: Rare Art Inc., New York, 15 July 1975

十七/十八世紀 青玉雕羅漢圖山子

來源: 於1975年7月15日購自紐約Rare Art Inc.

Compare a related pale grey-green jade carving of a luohan among rocks, in the British Museum, dated 17th/18th century, illustrated by J.Rawson in Chinese Jade from Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl.29:19, pp.410 and 418. Other examples of jade carvings of luohans in grottos can be seen in the Imperial collection in the Palace Museum, Beijing and the National Palace Museum, Taipei; see Zheng Xinmiao, ed., Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade, 8, Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2011, pl.108 and The Refined Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the Ch'ing Court, Taipei, 1997, pl.43.

A related pale celadon jade luohan and grotto group was sold at Christie's Hong Kong on 27 May 2009, lot 1977.

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