Chinese Scholar's Rock

Nobody carved this. Somebody merely found it, and then built it a chair.

This scholar's rock comes from Pingxiang Town, Guangxi, China, and its age is indeterminate. It is stone on a hard wood base. Chinese scholars kept rocks like this on their desks and in their studios as objects of contemplation, small mountains that brought wild nature indoors. A pale, pitted form rises in a thin curve from one narrow point, then swings out overhead and drops back, with holes worn through one end. The stand is dark, with a lobed top and curling legs. Twenty-one inches high and 13 wide.

It asks nothing and answers about the same.