A YING SCHOLAR'S ROCK MING – QING DYNASTY

the fine grained limestone superbly wrought out rising from a pointed foot to a series of sharp-edged peaks, deeply marked with vertically oriented fissures, the dark lustrous stone streaked with faint buff veins, wood stand, the cover of the Japanese wood box with an ink painting of the rock, inscribed "by the Old Man of Jade Hall", and a spurious designation of the rock as "Lingbi"