A LARGE SANCAI-GLAZED STONEWARE FIGURE OF A STANDING LUOHAN Ming Dynasty The figure deftly modelled standing with hands clasped before the chest in devotion, the large domed head with long arched eyebrows flanked by long pendulous ears, clad in long flowing monk's robes with wide sleeves, standing atop a lotus pedestal, wood stand. 91cm (35 7/8in) high. (2). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 明 三彩羅漢像 Provenance: an English private collection Bonhams London, 12 May 2011, lot 278 Acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, London, on 15 September 2011 (collector's notes) Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: The Oriental Ceramic Society, China Without Dragons: Rare Pieces from Oriental Ceramic Society Members, London, 2016, p.55, no.23 M.White, People at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White collection, vol.5, n.p, 2024, p.111 (Published and Illustrated) 來源：英國私人收藏 倫敦邦瀚斯，2011年5月12日，拍品編號278 獲得于倫敦古董商R & G McPherson Antiques，2011年9月15日（藏家筆記） 展覽著錄：東方陶瓷學會，《龍隱： 東方陶瓷學會會員稀珍藏品展》，倫敦，2016年，第55頁，編號23 M.White，《People at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White collection》，第5冊，無出版地，2024年，第111頁（著錄） Large-scale Buddhist figures such as the present lot were produced in ceramic tile workshops using the same materials and techniques developed for the manufacture of polychrome roof tiles and architectural ornaments for temple buildings, a craft for which Shanxi province was particularly renowned. See for example, a roof tile with guardian figure, 17th century, in the Art Institute of Chicago (acc.no.1960.738). While glazed roof decoration had a long history in China, the use of brightly coloured ceramic figures became especially widespread during the late Ming period. In terms of style and modelling, the present sculpture finds close parallels with painted luohan (disciples of the Buddha) preserved at Xiaoxitian, the Ming-dynasty temple complex on Fenghuang Mountain, Xixian, Shanxi province, founded in the seventh year of the Chongzhen reign (1634). See painted Buddhist-disciple figures in situ, similarly attired and raised on comparable lotus pedestals, illustrated by Yang Boda, Zhongguo meishu quanji. Diaosu bian [Complete Series on Chinese Art: Sculpture], vol.6, Beijing, 1988, pls.97 and 103. See also a sancai-glazed stoneware figure of a seated Luohan, Ming dynasty, in the Burrell collection, Glasgow, (acc.no.38.419). See also a sancai stoneware standing figure of a Buddhist attendant, dated 1503, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by E.Hsiang-Ling Hsu, Monks in Glaze, Leiden, 2017, p.156, fig.5.23. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing