Woodcarving and color painting of Arhat

[Wooden painted Arhat Statue]

Wooden painted Arhat Statue, the seventh year of Qingli in the Northern Song Dynasty (1047), is 56 cm high and 23 cm wide
Arhat has a bald head, long thick eyebrows, eyebrow corners drooping to the side of the cheeks, and ears drooping close to the shoulders. Wearing cassocks, sitting with half open legs. The lower part is a mountain shaped seat, and the central part of the front side of the seat is inscribed with a vow: “The main seat of Guangzhou disciples carves a arhat hall, and Monk Bingqiu recommends the life world of Zheng Sanniang, who died in Nanhua Yongchong. Ding Haiqing praises it.” “Bingqiu” should be a misprint of “monk”. The appearance of this image is decorated with a variety of decorations, such as painting, gilding, stickers, ink, etc. It is a relic of different periods, which provides us with physical data to understand the decoration methods of different periods