Bidspirit auction | CHINESE LAVA SCHOLAR'S ROCK

CHINESE LAVA SCHOLAR'S ROCK - Qing Dynasty, Ca. AD 1644-1912. An upright scholar's stone (also known as Gong Shi, meditation stone and spirit rock) of significant mass and volume, gracefully balanced on the wood display stand. The dark stone, with the pronounced white veins and wrinkled surface texture. For a similar, please see The Metropolitan Museum, Accession number 2009.512.1a.b. Size: 920mm x 400mm; Weight: 40+kg From the private collection of a Somerset gentleman; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK /European art markets.