A RARE EMBELLISHED SOAPSTONE FIGURE OF A LUOHAN ATTRIBUTED TO ZIXIU, LATE MING DYNASTY skilfully carved in the form of a luohan seated in rajalilasana on a pierced rockwork base, portrayed clad in finely incised loose garments embellished with pearls and turquoise glass beads, the figure portrayed with a meditative expression accentuated with curly beard and flanked by a pair of pendulous earlobes, further depicted with the left hand holding a ruyi sceptre and the right held in a fist resting atop the bent right knee, the figure rendered with a variegated grey stone, all set on a beige stone suffused with reddish inclusions and dark speckles 8.4 cm, 3 1/4 in.
A RARE EMBELLISHED SOAPSTONE FIGURE OF A LUOHAN ATTRIBUTED TO ZIXIU, LATE MING DYNASTY skilfully carved in the form of a luohan seated in rajalilasana on a pierced rockwork base, portrayed clad in finely incised loose garments embellished with pearls and turquoise glass beads, the figure portrayed with a meditative expression accentuated with curly beard and flanked by a pair of pendulous earlobes, further depicted with the left hand holding a ruyi sceptre and the right held in a fist resting atop the bent right knee, the figure rendered with a variegated grey stone, all set on a beige stone suffused with reddish inclusions and dark speckles 8.4 cm, 3 1/4 in.
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