Chinese Gongshi Scholar's Rock or Spirit Stone

Nature appears to have been throwing pots.

This gongshi, a scholar's rock or spirit stone, is Wuling stone from Hunan Province, China, on a hardwood base. Its age is indeterminate. Chinese scholars and officials gathered gongshi for their studios, setting them on carved stands as miniature landscapes that offered a retreat into nature from a desk. This one lies long and low, with three vase-like columns rising from a banded ledge, the last opening into a small window. Grey and cream layers run horizontally throughout. The dark stand is pierced and footed like a little table. Nineteen inches wide.

No potter was consulted.