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Mongolian Feng Li Scholar Stone browse these categories for related items... All Items: Vintage Arts:Regional Art:Asian:Chinese:Scholar Art: Pre 1960: item # 816112 Please refer to our stock # 60-01 when inquiring.
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| This feng li (wind cut) viewing stone with its wonderful other-worldly surface is from Alashan Zuo Qi on the western end of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. There in the Gobi Desert, the dry winds and blowing sand shape stones with molten, craggy surfaces unlike those of scholar stones collected anywhere else in China. This one, called "The Old Man" by its previous owner, can indeed reveal with a little imagination a bent figure with a large and drooping head, his chin resting on the hand of a thin arm. The contours of the rock, however, as with most valued scholar's stones, vary greatly as it is revolved; in this case, the stone has eight distinctly different silhouettes. (See photo enlargements.) Made up primarily of reddish brown jasper, among the hardest of rocks, this stone's craggy surface is surprisingly cool and smooth to the touch. The carved wood stand mirrors the color and look of the stone, shading from light to dark red/brown, with a surface that mimics swirling sand. The hole in the stone, atypical for feng li stones, may have been a cosmetic enhancement, commonly done on Chinese scholar stones down through the centuries to improve upon nature's work. Ascertaining a collection date for a scholar's rock without a traceable provenance is a guessing game but judging from the base, we place this one in mid-20th century. Dimensions including stand: height 8" (20 cm), width 6" (15 cm), depth 4" (10 cm). | |||||||||||||||
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