南宋 灰陶加彩羅漢坐像

seated in padmasana, his head slightly inclined in a meditative attitude with hands interlocked in front of his chest, his face set in a meditative expression, garbed in robes falling in naturalistic folds, the square-toed shoe on his left foot protruding below the hem, with traces of polychrome green, red, and black paint on the garment and a pale slip originally applied on the face and hands 

Arthur Vernay收藏，Nassau.
倫敦蘇富比1986年6月10日，編號88
香港佳士得1999年11月2日，編號766

There is some surface wear, rubbing and flaking to the pigments, all consistent with age and visible on the photo. There are a few expected old chips including chips to the fingers of the left hand and along the edges of the robe. There does not appear to be any obvious break showing on visual inspection or under UV but this would need to be confirmed by X-ray, especially the neck where there could be some retouching to the pigment (showing on the photo). There are drilled marks of thermoluminescence tests to the base photo available on request).
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羅漢雙目低垂，靜思坐禪，姿態自然莊嚴，巧妙捕捉其靜心平和之氣。唐代寺院以各式材質造禪定羅漢像，陳列其中，助信眾觀之平心，打坐入定。

舊金山亞洲藝術博物館藏一見相近陶加彩羅漢坐像，刊於René-Yvon Lefebvre d’Argencé，《 Chinese. Korean and Japanese Sculpture in the Avery Brundage Collection》，舊金山，1974年，圖版147。江蘇吳縣紫金庵見二尊相類羅漢像，現藏北京故宮博物院，載於翁萬戈及楊伯達，《故宮博物院：北京：古代中國美術品的寶庫》，倫敦，1982年，圖版145、146。Baerwald珍藏有一例，展出於《Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst》，柏林，1929年，編號494；另一尊羅漢造像，曾供於山西寺院，為James Cromwell 夫人舊藏，1984年12月4日售於紐約蘇富比，編號116。還有兩件類似明代羅漢像，曾為盧芹齋及戴潤齋收藏，2011年3月22日，售於紐約蘇富比，編號271、272。