Lot 10
10
AN UNUSUAL STRIATED SCHOLAR'S ROCK

Details
AN UNUSUAL STRIATED SCHOLAR'S ROCK
Of low horizontal aspect ascending to a broad gently undulating peak, the stone of alternating thinly striated pinkish layers and dark gray marble-like layers with thin pale gray vertical striations
34in. (86.3cm.) long

Lot Essay

Robert Mowry illustrates a striated Red River scholar's rock from the collection of Richard Rosenblum in the Catalogue of the exhibition, Worlds within Worlds, Arthur M. Sackler Museums, Cambridge, 10 May - 20 July 1997, no. 79, p. 307, said to be made of layers of quartz.