A Strange Fengli Scholar’s Rock with Root Form Stand

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1980: item #975728

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Large Flourite Stone on Stand

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1980: item #922645

Large beautiful polished flourite scholar's stone on a wood carved base, colors of green , purple, and white. Size: 13 1/2" wide x 11 1/2" deep x 8" high with stand.

Linglong Taihu Qing Scholar's Stone

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1900: item #878968
60-11

This Taihu scholar's stone is classified as "linglong," one of the criteria used by connoisseurs to judge the rocks collected by Chinese literati. The term linglong may be translated as "shapely" or as "pierced with many holes." This stone also is in the category of "fantastic rock" (as opposed to "zoomorphic rocks" and "landscape rocks") for the obvious reason that one can see abstract, dream-like representations in its form. Shaped by the water of Tai Hu (Lake Tai) near Suzhou, its dark khaki... Click for details

A scholar's rock

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1920: item #858967
858967

Height: 26 ¾ in (68 cm) including stand

A Y-shaped branching black lingbi rock with openwork design, fitted in a wooden stand.

Published: Asiantiques, Chinese Works of Art (2009), cat. no. 58

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A scholar's rock

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1920: item #858965
858965

Height: 25 ½ in (64.7 cm) including stand

A black lingbi rock with openwork design and double overhang, fitted in a wood stand.

Published: Asiantiques, Chinese Works of Art (2009), cat. no. 57

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Lingyanshan Scholar Stone with Country Scene

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1920: item #852786
60-08

A swirling pastoral scene centered with a fantastic plum tree is represented in this polished, slab-shaped Chinese scholar’s rock. Classified as a “fantastic” or representational stone, one in which viewers see pictures from this and other worlds, it is in shades of molten caramel with touches of green floating across the lower right and left quadrants. The shape of the tree, which an earlier owner perceived as a plum tree, is echoed by another small tree of the same shape in the distance. Gre... Click for details

Mongolian Feng Li Scholar Stone

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1960: item #816112
60-01

This feng li (wind cut) viewing stone with its wonderful other-worldly surface is from Alashan Zuo Qi on the western end of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. There in the Gobi Desert, the dry winds and blowing sand shape stones with molten, craggy surfaces unlike those of scholar stones collected anywhere else in China. This one, called "The Old Man" by its previous owner, can indeed reveal with a little imagination a bent figure with a large and drooping head, his chin resting on the ha... Click for details

A Quartzite Scholars Viewing Stone - Qing

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1920: item #740578

A Chinese viewing stone for the scholars desk. This one is made of pure quartzite and resembles a group of ice boulders piled up – perhaps like the end of a glacier. The stone measures 6” wide by 4 ½” high by 3 ¾” deep and is mounted on a nicely fitted wooden stand with legs. We believe this one dates from the late 19th to early 20th century.
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A Rounded Top Scholars Viewing Stone with Stand - Qing

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1930: item #723974
ICHI 2962-A5

A scholars viewing stone made from what appears to be soapstone with aggregates of other rocks – different colors of grey, pale yellow, bluish grey and dark streaks. Obvious signs of some tooling to smooth the stone out and bring out the natural colors. The stone is in a poorly carved stand that has been stained a dark red – it would need some more work to make it a stable stand.

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A Miniature Chinese hardstone carving, mountains

Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation Pre 1940: item #710839

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