Chinese Scholar's Rock

Lumpy mound with natural striping, politely seated on its own carved stand.

This scholar's rock of Daiwan stone on a hardwood stand is from Daiwan Town, Guangxi, China. It is daiwan stone & hard wood. Connoisseurs of scholar's rocks traditionally prize qualities such as thinness, openness, wrinkled texture and a suggestion of mountains or landscape. Rounded, upright mass with a mottled grey-green body and bands of sandy tan running across the top and sides. The surface looks gritty and uneven. It rests in a fitted dark base with a scalloped, footed outline. It is 3.25 inches wide, 2.5 deep and 4 high.

Not a thing was carved, and nothing was improved.