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PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTOR
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PROVENANCE
A RARE ‘CHRYSANTHEMUM STONE’ SCHOLAR’S ROCK Christie’s New York, 16-17 September 2010, lot 1223.
The blackish-grey stone is of delicate, tracery-like form, with hollow
piercings and greyish-white ‘chrysanthemum’ inclusions. LITERATURE
12¡ in. (31.3 cm.) high, softwood stand R. Rosenblum, Art of the Natural World: Resonances of Wild Nature in Chinese
Sculptural Art, Boston, 2001, p. 60, fg. 35.
$8,000-12,000
A slightly larger ‘chrysanthemum stone’ scholar’s rock illustrated in
Zhongguo gu dai shang shi (Classical Chinese Rocks), Beijing, 2002, p. 229,
was sold at Christie’s New York, 20 September 2002, lot 84.
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