A MASSIVE GREY LINGBI 'MOUNTAIN-FORM' SCHOLAR'S ROCK
Qing dynasty
The massive lingbi rock of light grey color with flecks of white calcite throughout, when viewed face on it sits squat like a compressed official's hat, the folds of the rock appearing to buckle under their own weight, when viewed end on, the rock appears angled and lifted diagonally upward and transforms into a majestic mountain, the steep sides displaying the ridges of the rock underneath, the pale hongmu stand in a typical Jiangnan style.
14 1/4in (36cm) high
Footnotes:
清 靈璧山子

Provenance:
Ian and Susan Wilson, San Francisco

Published:
Kemin Hu, The Spirit of Gongshi: Chinese Scholar's Rocks, 1999, no. 44, p. 62, where it is described as Ying stone
Nicholas Grindley, Ian and Susan Wilson Collection of Scholars' Rocks, Berkeley, 2009, no. 16

來源：
舊金山威爾遜伉儷（Ian & Susan Wilson）舊藏

出版：
胡克敏《供石觀》，1999年，圖版44, 頁62
Nicholas Grindley, 《怪石》，伯克利，2009年，圖版16

The Qing dynasty stand is a typical Jiangnan style stand of pale brown hongmu wood with some paler areas of sapwood raised on five short cabriole legs with a lower section with undecorated vertical walls and an upper section with undulating raised protrusions. The lip that borders the rock-receiving cavity is broad and flat to retain the distinct angle of the rock.
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