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19 décembre 2017

Seated luohan (arhat) in a grotto, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 18th century

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Seated luohan (arhat) in a grotto, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 18th century. Malachite. H. 9 in. (22.9 cm); W. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm). Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921; 21.175.136 © 2000–2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Mystical figures such as Daoist and Buddhist practitioners were thought to retreat to landscapes with magical properties, represented in green and blue, where they were able to access the spiritual forces that lived within the mountains. In these two works, impressively large pieces of malachite and lapis lazuli have themselves been transformed into magical landscape scenes, each with its own Buddhist luohan hermit meditating in a cave.
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