The Great Luohan, the Venerable Seventeenth 大阿羅漢尊者像

Item

Title

The Great Luohan, the Venerable Seventeenth 大阿羅漢尊者像

Description

(none)

Source

https://asia.si.edu/object/F1918.6

Creator

Unidentified artist

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Wrapper labels: (2) – One (1) label slip and one (1) end label
Label slip: Anonymous (early 20th century)
Ink on silk. Mounted on fitted cloth wrapper (butterflies and orchids on grey ground)
1 column, standard script
唐僧貫休《羅漢圖》真蹟
Picture of Luohan, a genuine work by the Tang dynasty monk Guanxiu
End label Anonymous (early 20th century)
Ink on silk. Mounted on end of wrapper.
Standard script.
僧貫休《羅漢圖》
Picture of Luohan, by the monk Guanxiu
Outside label: Anonymous (early 20th century)
Ink on paper.
1 column, standard script
唐僧貫休《羅漢》真蹟,元僧溥光題
Luohan, a genuine work by the Tang dynasty monk Guanxiu. Inscribed by the Yuan dynasty monk
Puguang.
Inside label: Anonymous.
Ink on paper. On mounting, upper right.
1 column, clerical script and standard script
唐僧貫休《羅漢》真蹟,元僧溥光題
Luohan, a genuine work by the Tang dynasty monk Guanxiu. Inscribed by the Yuan dynasty monk
Puguang.
Inscription: Anonymous — spuriously attributed in labels to Puguang 溥光 (14th century)
Ink on silk. Upper right.
3 columns, standard script
第十七大阿羅漢,與五百眷屬住南嶽車轍靈川方廣聖寺。旹大元至正五年乙酉歲二月己卯
朔十九日甲戌吉。
The seventeenth Great Luohan, who resides with five hundred disciples at Fangguangsheng
Temple on the Jucheling River at [Mount] Nanyue.4 Dated on auspicious jiaxu, the nineteenth day
of the second lunar-month, with jimao as its first day, in the cyclical year yiyou, fifth year in the
Zhizheng reign period of the Great Yuan dynasty [March 23, 1345].
Signature: none
Date: 旹大元至正五年乙酉歲二月己卯朔十九日甲戌吉
Dated on auspicious jiaxu, the nineteenth day of the second lunar month,
with jimao as its first day, in the cyclical year yiyou, fifth year in the
Zhizheng reign period of the Great Yuan dynasty [March 23, 1345].
Seals: none

Abstract

(none)

Rights Holder

National Museum of Asian Art (Freer Sackler)

Identifier

F1918.6

References

Suzuki Kei 鈴木敬 (1920–2007), ed. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku 中國繪畫總合圖錄
(Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings). 5 vols. Tokyo: University of Tokyo,
1982–83. Vol. 1, 259 (A21–281).

abstract

Formerly attributed to Guanxiu (傳)貫休