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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
916-1124
Object number: 53.28
Sancai ware
916-1124
Object number: 53.29
Cizhou ware-type
1115-1234
Object number: 48.32
Vase
8th century
Object number: 38.5
206 B.C.-220 A.D.
Object number: 33.35.1
206 B.C.-220 A.D.
Object number: 33.35.2
Semitic peddler
Object number: 33.19
Photo: iocolor, LLP
early 6th century
Object number: 65.151
Cizhou ware
1115-1234
Object number: 41.12
West Mexico
200 B.C. - 300 A.D., Terminal Preclassic
Object number: 90.16