Lot 45. A turquoise 'scholar's rock' (gongshi), Qing dynasty. Estimate 8,000 — 10,000 USD. Unsold. Photo: Sotheby's.

vertically orientated, carved in imitation of a scholar's rock and evokative of mountain peaks, the turquoise matrix with an uneven surface and pierced with large circular openings, ridges and jagged protrusions. Height 4 7/8  in., 12.4 cm

Provenance: Ji Zhen Zhai Collection. 

Bibliography: Fang Jing Pei, Treasures of the Chinese Scholar, New York, 1997, pl. 131 (right). 

Sotheby's. Monochrome, New York, 15 sept. 2015