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A RARE AND SUPERBLY CARVED BAIFURONG FIGURE OF A LUOHAN 17TH-18TH CENTURY
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2021年09月23日 开拍 / 2021年09月21日 截止委托
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A RARE AND SUPERBLY CARVED BAIFURONG FIGURE OF A LUOHAN
17TH-18TH CENTURY
The figure is shown seated with right leg raised and right hand resting on his knee, leaning against a gnarled trunk growing from an intricate network of intertwined roots forming the base on which he sits. He holds in his left hand a scepter topped by a stylized leonine mask and wears voluminous, long-sleeved robes finely incised with composite floral sprays and swirling clouds, the borders incised with undulating waves and accented with tiny coral, lapis lazuli and turquoise beads. His long eyebrows, short, curly beard and the stubble on his shaved head are all finely delineated. The softly polished stone is of greyish-beige tone with some areas of caramel-brown.
5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) high, silk stand and cloth box
1.9 lb. (842 g.)
Hunting Folger Deutsch Collection,Florida. Christie's New York, 26 March 2003, lot 19.Lot Essay This magnificent and extremely rare figure most likely depicts Ajita, one of The Sixteen Arhats, or advanced disciples, of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni. In Chinese iconography, Ajita is traditionally shown with long eyebrows, hence the name Changmei Luohan, or “the luohan with long eyebrows.” The soapstone used for this exquisite figure is baifurong, a variety of furong stone, ranging in color from white to pale creamy beige, found at the Jialiang mountains, located about eight kilometers outside of Shoushan Village in Fujian province. The large size of the precious material and the outstanding quality of the carving distinguishes this figure as amongst the finest soapstone carvings of 17th and 18th century. It would have been extremely difficult to obtain a piece of baifurong stone of such large size and fine color that would allow this luohan to be depicted with an integral naturalistic stand; typically, the stands or bases of such figures are usually carved separately and from a more common type of soapstone, such as gaoshan. It also required a carver of tremendous skill to depict the thoughtful expression on the luohan's face, and the intricate decoration on the robes, not to mention plan out the utilization of the stone's material markings to enhance the details. A smaller (7.8 cm.) soapstone figure of luohan holding a ruyi-scepter, but seated with a tiger on a separately carved base, dated to 17th century, formerly in the Marcel Lorber Collection, is illustrated by S. Moss in Between Heaven and Earth: Secular and Divine Figural Images in Chinese Paintings and Objects, London, 1988, no. 51. Another soapstone luohan shown holding a ruyi-scepter without a base and also of smaller size (6 cm.) is illustrated by G. Tsang and H. Moss in Arts of the Scholar's Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, pp. 222-23, no. 135. A further smaller (8.2 cm.) example with a separately carved base, attributed to Zhou Bin, formerly in the collection of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 June 2016, lot 73.

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