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Laoshan Lushi Scholar's Stone browse these categories for related items... All Items: Chinese: Scholar Art: Rocks and Contemplation: Pre 1910: item #707546 Please refer to our stock #52-29 when inquiring.
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| A Chinese scholar's stone from Laoshan Mountain in Shandong Province, China, has the craggy grey/green stone, known to collectors as Laoshan Lushi, embedded with a smooth and shiny knot-shaped vein of black stone that looks like onyx. The contrasting vein and the shape of the rock give it appeal from several sides and angles, a quality that was sought by Chinese scholar collectors who began nearly 1000 years ago bringing special stones into their studios for contemplation and display. For them, such rocks represented nature, the world in miniature, and were said to sometimes provide visions into the realm of the Taoist immortals. Laoshan Mountain, the origin of this stone, still is home to many Taoist monasteries. Scholar's rocks are dated, for collectors' purposes, to the time when the rock was first appreciated and displayed as a work of art, obviously difficult to do with precise accuracy. Sometimes the wood display base gives a clue, and the relatively plain base on this one indicates it probably was collected fairly recently in terms of scholar rocks, most likely during the last years of the Qing Dynasty in the early 20th century. Dimensions of the rock with base: height 8" (20 cm), width and depth both 4" (10 cm). The height of the stone without the base is 7" (18 cm). | |||||||||
