A SOAPSTONE FIGURE OF A LUOHAN QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

the cream-coloured Shoushan stone streaked with crimson-red veins, finely carved in the form of a luohan seated in a meditative pose, dressed in loose fitting monastic robes partly open at the chest revealing his bare torso, his hand held in dhyanamudra, his face detailed with downcast eyes and bud lips set in a benevolent smile, his hair and beard studded with dark etching, the stone with smooth patina