Scholar's Rock

A stone with two eyes and a jutting brow, on a stand built like a small table.

This scholar's rock has no recorded origin, date or stone type. Rocks like it were kept by scholars as companions for looking and thinking, their odd outlines suggesting whole mountains or the forces that shape them. A broad, pale grey slab tapers to a point, pierced by two round holes, with a ledge pushing out at the top. Faint scratches and tan patches mark the surface. Two reddish carved stands raise it, one knobbed and the other long-legged. Nineteen and a half inches high.

It seems to be looking at something just behind you.