18th C Chinese Scholar's Ying Rock with Buddha

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1800: item #1125752
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A very rare Ying Stone. Traditionally produced in Yingde, Guangdong province and in Guanxi province, these rocks are limestone with calcite deposits. Less hard than Lingbi, they are often full of furrows with twisted lines on intricately textured surfaces. They appear to embody a thousand hills and valleys, and are well-suited for representing a far distant landscape. The typical thin, wrinkled appearance often exhibits traces of sawing and cutting with distinguishable front and reverse sides. T... Click for details

An old and large natural root-wood sculpture.

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1920: item #1114815
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An old, large natural root-wood sculpture made of a single piece of burnished and lacquered cypress or perhaps rosewood. Dramatic details. All in all very decorative piece for the scholar’s studio. China, early 20th cent. H 55 cm, W 40 cm. Condition: Excellent.

A Pierced Yellow Scholar’s Rock with Jiagnan Type Stand

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1980: item #1112111

A small and elegant soft yellow-colored scholar’s rock with an elegant, balanced asymmetry, pierced in a manner resembling taihu (Lake Tai) stone, but with a dryer, bone-like texture with deep furrows, this is a hill rather than a lake stone, of an unidentified variety. The stone is vertically-oriented and fitted to a well-carved Jiagnan style stand which was shaped from a single section of dark colored, reddish hardwood (hongmu) with four integral and raised pad feet. The classic Jiagnan form... Click for details

Antique & unique bronze scholar's rock (gongshi)

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1837 VR: item #1111857
627

Unique bronze scholar’s rock (gongshi). This relatively rare type of gongshi was made by dripping red-hot molten bronze onto a pile of fresh pine chips. When coagulating the bronze would then “freeze” into its present form. No two pieces are identical, of course. Qing, 18–19th cent. Later base of hongmu. H. 16 cm, L. 17 cm; (with stand: H. 19 cm x L. 20 cm. = 7,5 x 7,9 inches). Condition: Perfect

Unique, natural root wood. Howling monkey.

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1900: item #1110404
617

An interesting and drammatic natural root wood in the shape of an angry male monkey on attach position, standing on its legs, arms streched back and open mouth in a distorted firce howl. A unique work of nature! H. 25 cm, L. 19 cm x 19 cm. China, 19th cent. Very good condition, the wood (a type of hardwood) has wonderfull old patina

A Small Pierced Scholar’s Rock with Jiagnan Type Stand

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1920: item #1094677

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Original Chinese Painting on Paper, early 19th Century

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1837 VR: item #1093670

A long and narrow original Chinese painting depicting a refined and contemplating Court Lady under a tree in a rock garden. The painting shows climatic wear on the extreme left side. It has a true seal/signature. Size: H. 39" (99 cm.) x W. 9" (23 cm.)

Chinese Antique Lingbi Scholar Stone

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1900: item #1090024

Chinese antique Lingbi scholar stone. Grayish black stone with white traces and linear striations. Large hole in center stone which is balanced on rosewood base. Rock is very dense with strong metallic ring when struck. From Anhui Province, China. Size: 15.5 inches high x 7 inches wide x 7 inches deep,

An Elegant & Natural Ying Stone Bridged Scholar’s Rock

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1920: item #1063403

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A Scholars Rock – Three Mountains

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1950: item #978462
ICHI 3489-A8

This is a study stone for the scholars studio – made in the shape of three peaks in a distant mountain range. The stone appears to be volcanic rock - possibly a light-colored, uniformly solid rock called rhyolite. There is no fitted base for the stone – but is does stand evenly and does look very much like a distant range when looked at on a table or shelf. The piece measures 8” long by 6” high by 4” thick and is in excellent condition. Age is impossible to determine – so we will classify it as... Click for details