A CHINESE WHITE-GLAZED FIGURE OF A SEATED LUOHAN

A CHINESE WHITE-GLAZED FIGURE OF A SEATED LUOHAN
18TH CENTURY

Modelled wearing loose monk’s robes, holding a fly whisk in his right hand, with a shoe and alms bowl before him, the base with an impressed seal mark reading Hu Lianxing ji, 12cm.

Cf. W R Sargent, Treasures of Chinese Export Ceramics from the Peabody Essex Museum, pp.456-457, pl.253, for a similar pair with polychrome enamels and a matching potter’s seal mark.