A GREY LINGBI SCHOLAR'S ROCK
A GREY LINGBI SCHOLAR'S ROCK

SONG DYNASTY OR LATER

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A GREY LINGBI SCHOLAR'S ROCK
SONG DYNASTY OR LATER
With wide, diagonally set overhang, the form suggestive of two cresting waves or of a landscape with a ravine separating a low mountain range in the foreground and a monumental peak in the distance, the resonant, finely wrinkled, grey stone with some white horizontal veining
23 1/8 in. (58.7 cm.) across, Jiangnan-style wood stand
Literature
R.D. Mowry, Worlds Within Worlds: The Richard Rosenblum Collection of Chinese Scholars' Rocks, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 1997, p. 198, no. 26.

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Lot Essay

In his catalogue entry for the present rock in Worlds Within Worlds, op. cit., p. 198, Robert D. Mowry states, "Gray and black Lingbi stones came from the same caves in northeastern Anhui province; closely related geologically, they differ in general appearance because gray examples lack the carbonaceous inclusions that give black stones their distinctive color. Their dense structure makes all Lingbi rocks resonant, whatever their color; for reasons not yet understood, however, gray examples tend to be the most resonant. This exceptionally sonorous specimen numbers among the most resonant of all."

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