About This Artwork

Chinese

Head of a Luohan, Northern Song, Liao, or Jin dynasty, c. 11th century

Hollow dry lacquer
28.6 x 18 x 20 cm (11 1/4 x 7 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Gift of the Orientals, 1928.259

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Charles Fabens Kelley, “A Dried Lacquer Head of the T’ang Dynasty,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 23, 1 (January 1929), pp. 2-3

Otto Fischer, Chinesische Plastik (Munchen: R. Piper Co. Verlag), 1948, pl. 118.

Laurence Sickman and Alexander Soper, The Art and Architecture of China (Penguin Books, 1971), p. 200, pl. 140.

Mary Shepherd Slusser, “The Art of East Asian Lacquer Sculpture,” Orientations 27, no. 1 (January 1976), pp. 23-24, fig. 13.

Elinor Pearlstein and James T. Ulak, Asian Art in the Art Institute of Chicago (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), p. 148, p. 42 (ill.).

Art Insitute of Chicago: Essential Guide, rev. ed. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009) p.887.