A Small Malachite Rock Qing Dynasty, 18th Century

horizontally oriented, the jagged rock deeply pitted with sharp edges and crevices connecting through openings, the surface left rough above and the underside smoothly polished, revealing the stone's deep evergreen colour and bright emerald-green striations, carved with two small feet allowing the rock to rest on four points on the boxwood stand, the latter carved with gently undulating waves