A PALE GREEN AND RUSSET JADE 'LUOHAN' BOULDER 18th century
A PALE GREEN AND RUSSET JADE 'LUOHAN' BOULDER
18th century
The rich and lustrous pale green stone formed as a remote mountain grotto enclosing a luohan with jovial expression, clad in long flowing robes, seated on a rock and holding sutras, a cylindrical incense burner on a nearby ledge, all beneath a gnarled tree, the reverse with auspicious lingzhi fungus growing from craggy rocks, hardwood stand. 18.5cm (7 1/4in) high. (2).
十八世紀 青玉褐斑羅漢玉山子
Provenance: Sotheby's London, 5 March 1963, lot 166
Acquired by the present owner's father at Spink & Son Ltd., on 30 March 1963, and thence by descent
來源： 倫敦蘇富比，1963年3月5日，拍品編號166
由現藏家的父親在1963年3月30日從Spink & Son Ltd.處購得，並由後人保存迄今
The present lot belongs to an important group of closely related jade carvings carved with a luohan in a mountain grotto. The subject matter may have derived from woodblock prints on the theme, printed in the 18th century catalogue Gu yu tu pu (古玉圖譜). Buddhism as the foremost state religion during the Qing dynasty received great attention during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. The Emperor ordered the Court painter Ding Guanpeng (1708-1771) to paint the sixteen luohans after the original set by Guanxiu (823-912) that he had seen during his visit to Hangzhou in 1757.
Compare with a related jade boulder with a Luohan meditating in a grotto in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Qianlong, illustrated in The Refined Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the Ch'ing Court, Taipei, 1997, pl.39.
See a related pale green jade boulder, Qianlong, which was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 27 November 2018, lot 77.
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A PALE GREEN AND RUSSET JADE 'LUOHAN' BOULDER
18th century
The rich and lustrous pale green stone formed as a remote mountain grotto enclosing a luohan with jovial expression, clad in long flowing robes, seated on a rock and holding sutras, a cylindrical incense burner on a nearby ledge, all beneath a gnarled tree, the reverse with auspicious lingzhi fungus growing from craggy rocks, hardwood stand. 18.5cm (7 1/4in) high. (2).
十八世紀 青玉褐斑羅漢玉山子
Provenance: Sotheby's London, 5 March 1963, lot 166
Acquired by the present owner's father at Spink & Son Ltd., on 30 March 1963, and thence by descent
來源： 倫敦蘇富比，1963年3月5日，拍品編號166
由現藏家的父親在1963年3月30日從Spink & Son Ltd.處購得，並由後人保存迄今
The present lot belongs to an important group of closely related jade carvings carved with a luohan in a mountain grotto. The subject matter may have derived from woodblock prints on the theme, printed in the 18th century catalogue Gu yu tu pu (古玉圖譜). Buddhism as the foremost state religion during the Qing dynasty received great attention during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. The Emperor ordered the Court painter Ding Guanpeng (1708-1771) to paint the sixteen luohans after the original set by Guanxiu (823-912) that he had seen during his visit to Hangzhou in 1757.
Compare with a related jade boulder with a Luohan meditating in a grotto in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Qianlong, illustrated in The Refined Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the Ch'ing Court, Taipei, 1997, pl.39.
See a related pale green jade boulder, Qianlong, which was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 27 November 2018, lot 77.
