White Luohan

Probably imperial, 1790-1820
Height: 6.5 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.68/1.90 cm
Stopper: porcelain moulded in the form of a formalized chrysanthemum flower; c.2010

Provenance:
Unrecorded collection
Hugh M Moss, Ltd, London, c.1970-1978
John Ault
Robert Kleiner, August 2013

 

Colourless and slightly beige glaze on white porcelain; moulded in relief with a continuous scene of the Eighteen Luohan with various attributes (a pagoda, a staff, a pair of symbols, long eyebrows, a face of Buddha in the chest, a pearl, a crutch, and a fat belly), one holding a ring and riding a tiger, another holding a Buddhist lion, and with a dragon above conjured by another, all set on formalized clouds against a wave-pattern ground, the upper neck with a band of raised dots, the lip and foot rim with a pale beige glaze, and originally gilt

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