Description
A polychromed wood figure of a luohan of Indian type. Ming dynasty, 16th/17th century Seated on a rockery base, leaning slightly forward, the face with an animated expression and open mouth, beneath a pronounced bump on the forehead, the right hand forming a fist and placed onto the emanciated chest, the left hand resting on the knee, wearing an black-painted undergarment with borders in red and green, the robe with floral decorations of applied gesso relief. The object or possibly a lion to the luohans left-hand side missing. Height 57.5 cm Provenance Formerly with China-Bohlken (Theodor Bohlken), Berlin (around 1930) Private collection, Salzburg, acquired at Georg L. Hartl, Bernried Literature Ill. in: Weltkunst, vol.5, no. 7, 15.2.1931, p. 8, with two other luohan (out of a group of eight) and dated to the Song dynasty
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A polychromed wood figure of a luohan of Indian type. Ming dynasty, 16th/17th century Seated on a rockery base, leaning slightly forward, the face with an animated expression and open mouth, beneath a pronounced bump on the forehead, the right hand forming a fist and placed onto the emanciated chest, the left hand resting on the knee, wearing an black-painted undergarment with borders in red and green, the robe with floral decorations of applied gesso relief. The object or possibly a lion to the luohans left-hand side missing. Height 57.5 cm Provenance Formerly with China-Bohlken (Theodor Bohlken), Berlin (around 1930) Private collection, Salzburg, acquired at Georg L. Hartl, Bernried Literature Ill. in: Weltkunst, vol.5, no. 7, 15.2.1931, p. 8, with two other luohan (out of a group of eight) and dated to the Song dynasty
