A RARE SET OF IVORY FIGURES OF THE EIGHTEEN LUOHAN
19TH CENTURY
A RARE SET OF IVORY FIGURES OF THE EIGHTEEN LUOHAN 19TH CENTURY Each shown seated on a rockwork stool, wearing crisply draped priest's robes and holding or accompanied by a different attribute, including a dragon, cats, a bird borne on vapor, Guanyin borne on vapor issuing from a stupa , and musical instruments, each face carved with smiling expression and each bald head with black stippling in back to indicate shaved hair, with applied ivory bases, the ivory of warm yellowish tone 4½ in. (11.4 cm.) high approximately, wood stands, wood case (18)
A RARE SET OF IVORY FIGURES OF THE EIGHTEEN LUOHAN
19TH CENTURY
A RARE SET OF IVORY FIGURES OF THE EIGHTEEN LUOHAN 19TH CENTURY Each shown seated on a rockwork stool, wearing crisply draped priest's robes and holding or accompanied by a different attribute, including a dragon, cats, a bird borne on vapor, Guanyin borne on vapor issuing from a stupa , and musical instruments, each face carved with smiling expression and each bald head with black stippling in back to indicate shaved hair, with applied ivory bases, the ivory of warm yellowish tone 4½ in. (11.4 cm.) high approximately, wood stands, wood case (18)
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