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A CHINESE SOAPSTONE FIGURE OF A?SEATED LOHAN.
17th century.
The hands resting on the right knee raised from below long flowing robes, the face with bulging eyes and a stern expression, a small dragon to his left side, a pearl clasped in the beast’s front right paw, 9cm H.
十七世紀?? 壽山石雕降龍羅漢坐像
The colour and style of carving closely to a soapstone figure of a monk in the British Museum, illustrated by Soames Jenyns, Chinese Art, 1981, p 209, pl 182. The piece is essential to the dating of soapstone figures of the Kangxi period, as it was recorded as entering the collection of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) in 1718.
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