Scholar’s Rock in the Form of a Fantastic Mountain

China

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This unusually large piece of malachite, with dramatic silhouette and rugged surface, resembles a craggy mountain in miniature. Intended to adorn a scholar’s studio, the piece’s striking shape and vivid colors were viewed as embodiments of the dynamic transformational processes of nature.

Scholar’s Rock in the Form of a Fantastic Mountain, Malachite, China

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