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Seated Luohan (Arhat)
Photo: Nathaniel Willson

Seated Luohan (Arhat)

Date1484
Object number33.1146
Photo CreditPhoto: Nathaniel Willson
Published ReferencesSteuber, Jason and Guolong Lai, Collectors, Collections & Collecting the Arts of China, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press), fig. 12.15a, p. 306 (color). Gillman, Derek. “The Imperial Luohans of Zhongdu and the Reassertion of Chan (Zen) Buddhist Influence in North China.” Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society Volume 78, (2013-2014): p. 44, reproduced fig. 7. Hsiang-Ling Hsu, Eileen. Monks in Glaze: Patronage, Kiln Origin, and Iconography of the Yixian Luohans. Leiden: Brill, 2017; p.84, reproduced fig. 3.12.
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions52 in. (132.08 cm)
MediumEarthernware with incising, applique, polychrome glaze on white slip ceramic
Sancai ware
Chinese
916-1124
Object number: 53.28
Sancai ware
Chinese
916-1124
Object number: 53.29
Vase
Chinese
8th century
Object number: 38.5
Cizhou ware-type
Chinese
1115-1234
Object number: 48.32
Semitic peddler
Chinese
Object number: 33.19
Photo: iocolor, LLP
Chinese
early 6th century
Object number: 65.151
Chinese
206 B.C.-220 A.D.
Object number: 33.35.1
Chinese
206 B.C.-220 A.D.
Object number: 33.35.2
Chinese
960-1127
Object number: 49.138.1
Cizhou ware
Chinese
1115-1234
Object number: 41.12
200 B.C. - 300 A.D., Terminal Preclassic
Object number: 90.16