A famille-rose 'Arhats' alms jar, Qing dynasty
Lot 533. A famille-rose 'Arhats' alms jar, Qing dynasty. Estimate 4,000 — 6,000 USD. Lot sold 25,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's.
the globular body painted with a continuous scene of the eighteen arhats in a garden landscape, all depicted with their respective attributes, wood cover inset with a reticulated jade knob (2). Diameter 6 3/4 in., 17.3 cm
Provenance: Collection of Heber R. Bishop (1840-1902).
American Art Association, New York, 20th January 1906, lot 943.
Collection of Harriet Bishop Lanier (b. 1866), and thence by descent.
Literature: American Art Association and Thomas E. Kirby, De Luxe Catalogue of the Art Collection Formed by the Late Heber R. Bishop, New York, 1906, pl. 943, where the vase is illustrated in an engraving by G.E. Burr.
Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art New York, 15 Mar 2017