Tag: Yixian Luohan

  • Yixian Luohan: The British Museum

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    One of the famous group of life-sized glazed stoneware figures from the caves of Yixian (near Beijing). These Three-Color (三彩) Luohans (Liao Dynasty, 10th–11th Century) are renowned for their incredible realism and serene, meditative expressions. Liang Sicheng (1901-72), the celebrated Chinese architect, once remarked that the Yixian Luohans, with their realistic anatomy and finely detailed…