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A SMALL ‘BAMBOO SHOOT’ SCHOLAR’S ROCK
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The stone is vertically oriented with a flat base rising to a narrowing
top, the surface with numerous horizontal striations, several of which
are particularly pronounced, reminiscent of the skin of a bamboo
shoot. The stone is of a pale russet-brown tone.
4º in. (10.9 cm.) high, wood stand, Japanese wood box
HK$100,000-150,000 US$13,000-19,000
Compare to a small petrified bamboo rock with multiple horizontal
linear ridges, in the Ian and Susan Wilson Collection, fitted on a stand
inscribed with a poem by Qu Yungshan (1780-1849), illustrated in Spirit
Stones of China, The Ian and Susan Wilson Collection of Chinese Stones,
‘ Painting, and Related Scholar’s Objects’, Stephen Little, The Art Insitute
of Chicago in Association with University of California Press, May
1-August 1 1999, no.36.
清 「竹筍」賞石
美國Ian及Susan Wilson伉儷珍藏一件造形相似的竹化石，見1999年芝
加哥藝術學院及加州大學出版Stephen Little著「Painting, and Related
Scholar’s Objects」，《Spirit Stones of China, The Ian and Susan Wilson
Collection of Chinese Stones》，圖36。
66 BEYOND WHITE CLOUDS 出雲疊嶂 — 文人案頭賞石
