Asian Arts

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The present jade is a rare early depiction in jade of a foreigner, in this case, a Lohan. Compare the soft polish of the carving and similar facial features including a broad nose, to the figure of a foreigner with mythical beast, sold in these rooms, April 8, 2021, lot 86. See also the figure of a western groom tending a horse in the Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Arts Museum, San Francisco, B64J388. Compare also the larger figure of Fung-Kan, with fluttering scarves and leonine beast, dated to the late Ming dynasty, in Stanley Charles Nott, "Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages", Rutland, 1972, pl. CXLVII. See also Liu Yang and Edmund Capon, "Translucent World, Chinese Jade from the Forbidden City, Sydney, 2000, no. 48, for a small figure of a dancing foreigner, dated to the Tang dynasty; and a foreigner with vase, dated to the 17th/18th century, sold at Christie's New York, March 18, 2008, lot 420. Compare also a kneeling foreigner, from the collection of William S. Arnett, dated Tang-Early Ming dynasty, sold at Christie's, New York, September 12, 2018, lot 903.