A 'CALICO' LINGBI SCHOLAR'S ROCK

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE MASSACHUSETTS COLLECTION

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A 'CALICO' LINGBI SCHOLAR'S ROCK
The two-sided rock is pierced with four large and smaller perforations that create a great sense of depth and volume. The pale brownish-beige stone is peppered with areas of dark grey and creamy russet inclusions and the surface is textured with mottled indentations.
12 ½ in. (31.7 cm.) wide, softwood stand

Lot Essay

Compare the present scholar's rock to a related example illustrated by R. D. Mowry in Worlds Within Worlds: The Richard Rosenblum Collection of Chinese Scholars' Rocks, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997, pp. 200-202, no. 28.

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