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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE
MASSACHUSETTS COLLECTION
970
A LARGE MALACHITE SCHOLAR’S ROCK
The vertical stone is covered throughout with
inclusions of various sizes and forms carved with
slightly concave faces revealing the concentric
rings of green color.
16 in. (40.6 cm.) high, softwood stand by Clif A.
Johnson, Los Angeles, California, 2005.

$10,000-15,000

The delicate manipulation of the polished
surfaces of this large stone evokes a bouquet of
fowers, closely resembling the circular blooms
of chrysanthemum. Malachite is not a stone
generally used in traditional Chinese scholar’s
rocks, but because of its similar form, with craggy
recesses and small meandering paths, it has been
accepted into the feld.
For a discussion exclusively on malachite
scholar’s rocks see the book by Larry and
Nina Ragle, A Hidden World of Green: A Study
of Similarity to Ancient Chinese and Japanese
Stones: An Album of the Malachite Collection of
Ralph Johnson, Laguna Beach, 2007. For general
information on malachite scholar’s rocks, see
Robert D. Mowry, Worlds Within Worlds: The
Richard Rosenblum Collection of Chinese Scholars’
Rocks, Harvard University Art Museums, 1997,
pp. 290-297, nos. 70-72.
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