A FINE WOOD FIGURE OF A LUOHAN China, frühe Ming-Dynastie H. 58,5 cm (H. 120 cm mit Sockel) Seated in European fashion on a throne with both shoed feet placed on a lotus-base, both arms raised in front of his chest, his right hand supporting a manuscript while the left is missing, wearing monastic garment including a wide-sleeved mantle covering both shoulders falling down his body and covering his legs, secured with a clasp draped over his left shoulder, his elderly face displaying a serene expression with blackish painted eyes below arched eyebrows, smiling lips, elongated earlobes and bald head. From an old Austrian private collection, in the family since 1994 Partly damages due age, head with firing traces