{"id":18508,"date":"2022-12-14T12:26:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T12:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lhasahou.com\/?p=18508"},"modified":"2023-08-03T17:57:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T17:57:24","slug":"a-pair-of-grisaille-and-gilt-luohan-plates-18th-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lhasahou.com\/?p=18508","title":{"rendered":"143. A pair of grisaille and gilt ‘Luohan’ plates, 18th C"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Depicting the Buddhist legend of Pindola who was a Brahmin and a general who became a devout Buddhist. Because of the religion\u2019s pacifism, and Pindola being forbidden to kill anymore, the king ordered him to become a monk and retire to a monastery. While there, he heard a tiger howling during the night and began leaving vegetarian meals for it outside the monastery doors at night. The tiger became tame and docile and Pindola was from then on known as the Taming Tiger Luohan. Now this is all very interesting, but what are the chances that the recipient of this dinner service in Europe in the mid-18th century knew the Legend of the Tiger Taming Luohan, let alone having specifically ordered this design? Either way, it is a great example of Europe\u2019s unending fascination with the exotic East, and the cross-currents of design that were carried by the China Trade. Circa 1745-1750.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Depicting the Buddhist legend of Pindola who was a Brahmin and a general who became a devout Buddhist. Because of the religion\u2019s pacifism, and Pindola being forbidden to kill anymore, the king ordered him to become a monk and retire to a monastery. While there, he heard a tiger howling during the night and began leaving vegetarian meals for it outside the monastery doors at night. The tiger became tame and docile and Pindola was from then on known as the Taming Tiger Luohan. Now this is all very interesting,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qing-early-mid","category-export-porcelain","category-collections"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lhasahou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lhasahou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lhasahou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lhasahou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lhasahou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lhasahou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21059,"href":"https:\/\/lhasahou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508\/revisions\/21059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lhasahou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lhasahou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lhasahou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lhasahou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}