A Carved Bamboo Figure of Yawning Luohan, Pantha the Elder

18TH CENTURY

清中期封錫祿式竹雕探手羅漢
carved in the style of Feng Xilu, yawning with mouth wide open and hands clasped, seated on jagged rockwork and dressed in loose robes revealing his collarbones and upper ribs, the patina of a warm reddish-brown color.

note:
For a similar carving of yawning luohan signed by Feng Xilu, please refer to Shanghai Museum, accession no. CI00000085.
Illustrated in Wang Shixiang, Wang Shixiang ji: Zhuke yishu (Collected works of Wang Shixiang: Bamboo carving), Beijing, 2013, fig .19, and Literati Spirit: Art of Chinese Bamboo Carving, Shanghai, 2001, pl. 20.

Another yawning luohan of similar outstanding quality is offered in Sotheby's Hong Kong, the Robert H. Blumenfield Collection of Chinese Bamboo Carvings, April 7th, 2015, lot 3031.

注：
參見上海博物館藏"清封錫祿竹根雕羅漢"（編號CI00000085），收錄于王世襄《王世襄集：竹刻藝術》及上海博物館《竹鏤文心：竹刻珍品特集》

Height 4 7/8 in., 12.4 cm.

Property from a Private Chicago Collection

Acquired from The Jade Dragon, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 28, 2003, inventory no. 16738.

A Carved Bamboo Figure of Yawning Luohan, Pantha the Elder