An exceptional imperial inscribed white jade 'luohan' boulder Qing dynasty, Qianlong period | 清乾隆 白玉御題「第五拔雜哩逋荅喇尊者」山子

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An exceptional imperial inscribed white jade 'luohan' boulder

Qing dynasty, Qianlong period

德安堂藏玉

清乾隆 白玉御題「第五拔雜哩逋荅喇尊者」山子

masterfully carved in high relief with the Fifth Luohan seated on a ledge within a deep grotto with two slender arms crossed over a raised left knee, naturalistically modelled with a balding head with a grinning expression accentuated with long bushy eyebrows flanking a hooked bulging nose, wearing flowing robes falling off the shoulder to gather at the waist, revealing an emaciated torso and a bare feet, a book placed at his side and a pair of boots placed on a rock before him, below a incised and gilded thirty-two character imperial inscription, all amidst jagged rockwork, the reverse carved as a continuation of the mountain scene with waterfall cascading down the craggy rockwork, wood stand

22.6 cm

題識：

顤顟其面，㱥殑其身。

中有相好，孰識此因。

以經擲地，參學事訖。

佛尚不居，而況非佛。