Chinese Polychrome Wood Figure of a Lohan (Monk) - 18thC Pillars A strikingly decorative piece made

A strikingly decorative piece made from teakwood with intricate bone and horn inlay work

The lively mottled red-orange surface was created through the application of coloured lac on a hand-turned lathe

Japanese Painting of Peacock Supplied in a Matt Black Wooden Frame

Originally commissioned for scholars to store books and manuscripts

Chinese Polychrome Wood Figure of a Lohan (Monk) - 18thC Pillars A strikingly decorative piece madeA Chinese carved and Polychrome wood figure of A Lohan (monk) seated with mythical creature. Early Ming. In Theravada Buddhism, the Arhat, Arahat or Arahant, translated into Chinese as Lohan, is one who has followed the Eightfold Path and has achieved deliverance of this earthly existence. He has reached "the other shore" and is saved for all eternity. In him the asavas the craving for sensual pleasures, earthly existence, ignorance and wrong views