AN UNUSUAL LIMESTONE SCHOLAR'S ROCK

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AN UNUSUAL LIMESTONE SCHOLAR'S ROCK China, first half of the 20th century. Horizontally orientated, the gray pitted stone with a contorted pointed outline evocative of a large mountain range, covered with crevices, ridges and jagged protrusions. Dimensions: Length 16 cm Traditionally, scholars collected two types of rocks for their studies: vertical peaks and horizontal mountain ranges. Connoisseurs of scholar's rocks throughout the ages have boiled down their criteria for evaluating stones into twelve terms: thin, wrinkled, porous, permeable, clear, ugly, obtuse, clumsy, teal, powerful, beautiful, deep. Stones that have half of these features are considered rare and superior.

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