A lacquered stucco head of a Luohan, Yuan/Ming dynasty | 元/明 泥塑彩繪羅漢頭像

A lacquered stucco head of a Luohan

Yuan/Ming dynasty

元/明 泥塑彩繪羅漢頭像

the full face with glass-inset almond-shaped eyes below long evenly arched eyebrows curling down and around his cheeks and bud mouth, the forehead centred with a domed ushnisha, all flanked by pendulous earlobes, covered overall with a crackled dark reddish-brown lacquer

Height 32 cm, 12 1/2 in.