Seated Luohan (Arhat)

Photo: Nathaniel Willson

Seated Luohan (Arhat)

1484

Earthernware with incising, applique, polychrome glaze on white slip ceramic
52 in. (132.08 cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
33.1146
Photo: Nathaniel Willson
location
Not currently on view

Resources

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.

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