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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE MASSACHUSETTS COLLECTION
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A YING STONE SCHOLAR’S ROCK The form of this handsome Ying scholar’s rock recalls, and may have been
The stone is of homogeneous grey color and is slightly lustrous. At the center inspired by, the majestic, vertical mountains depicted in the paintings of the
of the stone is a pierced opening along a diagonal ridge. The reverse of the Four Wangs, a celebrated group of 17th- to early 18th-century landscape
stone exhibits layered planes with vertical striations. painters. The attractive texture of the stone is visible on both the front and
10¬ in. (27 cm.) high, softwood stand back, which makes it uniquely able to be displayed and viewed in the round.
One side contains an opening which suggests a passageway that easily
allows the imagination to visualize a scholar traversing the mountainside.
$7,000-9,000
For a discussion of related scholar’s rocks see Robert D. Mowry, Worlds Within
PROVENANCE Worlds: The Richard Rosenblum Collection of Chinese Scholar’s Rocks, Harvard
James H. Soong Collection, San Francisco, 1988. University Art Museums, 1997, pp. 211-13, no. 32, pp. 222-225, no. 38.
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