Live Auction 2830Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
A LINGBI SCHOLAR'S ROCK
Lot 2269Property from the Jacob and Mary Stein Collection

A LINGBI SCHOLAR'S ROCK

QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

Closed21 March 2014

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USD 15,000

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A LINGBI SCHOLAR'S ROCK
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The rock has 'natural' layered formations surrounding various openings. The stone is of striated, warm grey color with some white veins and inclusions.
9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high, wood stand

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 2004.

Specialist note

Compare the lingbi rock of similar form, but of green color and dated to the Ming dynasty, illustrated by R. Mowry in Worlds within Worlds: The Richard Rosenblum Collection of Chinese Scholars' Rocks, Cambridge, 1996, p. 160, no. 5.