£2,500
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 682
Auction: 13 May 2022 at 11:00 BST
清 碧玉描金御題詩第四嘎禮嘎尊者圖玉片
finely incised and gilded, depicting the fourth Arhat Kālika (Galiga zunzhe) seated on a jagged rock after a painting by Ding Guanpeng, all below an incised poem extracted from the text by the Qianlong Emperor entitled "Guanxiu hua shiliu yingzhen xiang zan" (Praise of the sixteen luohans painted by Guan Xiu)
Provenance: formerly in a private Paris collection
Note: the translation of the poem: 'Shaking the rock, he leans his knee on it and there takes his rest. It is only this superior being, neither speaking nor silent, who has such eyebrows that trail to the ground. As he pulls them up by hand, does he not seem to be sorting through clouds, and this shows how very fine they are.' A comparable white jade panel incised with sixteen arhats and poem was sold at Sotheby's Paris, 11 December 2014, lot 164