Art
Chinese Scholar's Stones
- Item Number
- 225
- Estimated Value
- 55 USD
- Sold
- 15 USD to nursenice
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Add an contemplative element to your office, studio or study with these Chinese Scholar's Stones from the Linden Gallery in Door County.
Item Special Note
'Scholar's Stones
The Chinese interest in collecting rocks for religious or
aesthetic purposes can be traced back to the Han dynasty
(206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when Chinese connoisseurs began
using large stones to decorate their gardens and courtyards.
Scholars' Rocks is the most common English name given to
the small, individual stones that have been appreciated by
educated and artistic Chinese at least since the Song dynasty (960-1270).
To the Chinese scholar, these rocks represented a focus for
meditation ofreligious or philosophic principles and served
for contemplation prior to writing poems or painting.
Although most rocks resembled mountains (both famous
and imaginary), mountain ranges, overhangs and similar
natural wonders ofthe world around them, there were also
many that reminded the connoisseurs offamous people,
animals, and mythical creatures. Above all, these learned
Chinese admired the·rocks for "surfaces that suggest great
age, forceful profiles that evoke the grandeur ofnature,
overlapping layers or planes that impart depth, and hollows
or perforations that create rhythmic, harmonious patterns.
Scholars took these portable mountains into their studios
and used them for meditation and contemplation. Some were converted into utilitarian objects such as brush rests, censors or seals - but the majority were viewed as artistic creations in their own right.
Brown. Claudia "Worlds Within Worlds" The Richard Rosenblum Collection of Chinese Scholars' Rocks'
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