Two wood figures of Ananda and KasyapaMing Dynasty or earlierEach disciple standing on a lotus pedestal wearing long sleeved flowing robes wrapped in layers across the body, Ananda with a serene expression beneath a shaven head and flanked by pendulous ears, the hands joined at the chest in nebina ghasso symbolising a sincere and firm heart, Kaspaya with hands raised and locked together in the kanjo-in mudra to accompany the ceremony of unction, the robes of both figures detailed with fine fabric underneath a lacquered layer.30.5cm (12in) high. (2).注脚明或更早 木雕阿難陀與迦葉羅漢像一組兩件Provenance: Gerard Hawthorn Ltd. Oriental Art, London, 2000Published and Illustrated: Gerard Hawthorn, Two Thousand Years of Chinese and Japanese Sculpture, London, 2000, no.8.來源：英國倫敦古董商，Gerard Hawthorn Ltd. Oriental Art，2000年出版著錄：英國倫敦，Gerard Hawthorn，《Two Thousand Years of Chinese and Japanese Sculpture》，2000年，編號8Shakyamuni Buddha had ten major disciples but is usually depicted in Buddhist art and sculpture with just Ananda and Kasyapa beside him. Kasyapa is perhaps the most famous of Shakyamuni's disciples and he accepted his master's clothes after his death; while Ananda was known and praised by the Buddha for his memory, erudition and compassion. A large wood figure of a luohan, Song dynasty, in the National Museum of History, Taipei, bears a very similar fabric and lacquer cover to the wood as the present example, illustrated in Chinese Buddhist Wooden Sculptures from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties, Taipei, 1997, p.61. Another wood figure of a luohan, Song dynasty, is illustrated by R.Y.Lefebvre d'Argence (ed.), Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Sculpture: The Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, 1974, no.150. A larger wood figure of a luohan, Song/Yuan dynasty, also from the collection of Gerard Hawthorn, was sold at Bonhams New York, 19 March 2018, lot 8185.