Delicately carved to depict the tiger-taming luohan sitting in long flowing robes, the chest partially open and the feet bare, an open book in his right hand, the left hand over the shoulder of the beast, also seated, whose head is turned upwards and towards his master, Literature: For a smaller carved bamboo figure of Pindola, see the example from the Ip Yee collection, illustrated by Ip Yee and Laurence C. S. Tam, Chinese Bamboo Carving, Part I, Hong Kong, 1978, pl. 128 (colour pl. 37).