A TURQUOISE 'SCHOLAR'S ROCK' (GONGSHI) QING DYNASTY

Estimate

8,000 - 10,000 USD

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Description

Scholar's Rock

vertically orientated, carved in imitation of a scholar's rock and evokative of mountain peaks, the turquoise matrix with an uneven surface and pierced with large circular openings, ridges and jagged protrusions

Provenance

Ji Zhen Zhai Collection.

Literature

Fang Jing Pei, Treasures of the Chinese Scholar, New York, 1997, pl. 131 (right).