Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000 | Sold for $63,000
An unusual Chinese dark brown-black jade carving of a Lohan
Ming dynasty or earlier
笑狮罗汉玉雕 明或更早
An unusual Chinese dark brown-black jade carving of a Lohan 笑狮罗汉玉雕
Finely carved, depicting a corpulent luohan, probably Vijraputra, in semi-kneeling position, his broad face with serene and joyful expression under a scrolled diadem holding his long, curled hair, hoop earrings to his elongated ears, both hands clasping a playful small Chinese lion; the stone of a dark brown black with areas of beige and grey; later carved wood stand, brocade box
H: 3 1/4 in. (jade)
PROVENANCE:
The Gerald Godfrey Private Collection of Fine Chinese Jades, sold Christie's Hong Kong, October 30, 1995, lot 871 (as Song-Ming dynasty)
S. Berstein & Co., San Francisco
Property from a private collection, Bethesda, Maryland, acquired from the above, June 26, 2001 (as Ming Dynasty)
EXHIBITED:
Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, "Chinese Jade, The Image from Within" 1986, catalogue, no. 61
San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, "Reverence of a Stone, An Exhibition of Chinese Jade from the Gerald Godfrey Collection",1986
The Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, January 1989 "Stones of Virtue, Chinese Jades from the Gerald Godfrey Collection", catalogue no. 79, pl.11
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California, "Magic, Art and Order, Jade in Chinese Culture", February-April 1990, catalogue no. 30
LITERATURE:
Philip Cardeiro, "Chinese Jade, The Image from Within", Arts of Asia, November-December 1985, pp. 151-154, fig. 6