Seated luohan with a servant

Inscription: Inscribed, upper right "Poem on the Luohan Yeguang" possibly by Qianlong; calligraphy by Yeguang (11th son of Qianlong)

Translation of poem inscribed in corner:
"Poem on the Luohan Yeguang" by the Emperor
Several thousand years passed in the facing the wall.
Mount Sumero* is like a Kshana**
True void comes to the ocean of life
And the kalpa of the sages settles along the Ganges.
The free moon is my light and glory,
A simple flower makes by rich silks
I have none that I desire
Content I sit on the high snowy peak.
Calligraphy reverently executed by Yongxing"

*Axis of the universe
**1/90th of thought or 1/4500 of a minute

Edmund Cogswell Converse , Greenwich CT (until d. 1921) bequeathed to MMA

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