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A YING SCHOLAR’S ROCK, CHINA, CIRCA 17TH-18TH CENTURY
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2024年10月18日 开拍
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A YING SCHOLAR’S ROCK, CHINA, CIRCA 17TH-18TH CENTURY

Crafted from fine-grained gray limestone with a few white calcite inclusions, the irregular columnar form has a slight sway and is riddled with crags and crevices, evoking the image of a towering mountain precipice.

Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 1 April 2005, Lot 288. The Collection of Jerry and Dina Wind, acquired from the above. Jerry (Yoram) Wind is the Lauder Professor and Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and the founding director of Wharton's SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management. His wife, Dina, was a sculptor specializing in welded metals, who earned a master’s degree in Aesthetics from the University of Pennsylvania, studied art appreciation at the Barnes Foundation, and painted with Sam Feinstein, a student of Hans Hofmann. The couple began collecting art early in their marriage, approaching it as a partnership that embraced their differing tastes and perspectives. Their collection grew to include works by nationally and internationally recognized artists, including Dina’s art heroes like Louise Nevelson, Anthony Caro, and Mark di Suvero, as well as art and objects from their extensive travels in Asia and Africa.
Condition: Very good condition with expected weathering, old wear and natural imperfections. Few structural cracks and fissures, a small loss near the lower edge. The hardwood base with minor wear and few tiny chips.

Weight: 10,869 g (excl. base) and 11,897 g (incl. base)
Dimensions: Height 51 cm (excl. base) and 55 cm (incl. base)

With a finely carved and fitted hardwood base, dating from the late Qing dynasty to the Republic period. (2)

As far back as the Song Dynasty
, naturally weathered rocks were collected and displayed for pleasure and by the 17th century individual rocks were important and respected enough to have portraits commissioned. Exceptional examples possess good shape, texture and color, and have resonance when struck. Given these qualities a viewer can admire the strength of outline, perhaps seeing a mountain ridge or a rising cloud within the amorphous mass, and delight in following the twisting, undulating surface texture with their eyes. Transplanted from its original location where it was hewn by nature over thousands of years, a rock sitting on a hard-working scholar's desk can represent a whole world in miniature and allow the viewer's imagination to run.

Ying rocks are named after Yingde
in central Guangdong province, where the earliest examples were found and harvested in caves. The “dimpled” irregular texture and glossy surfaces of Ying rocks is attributed to the action of water and many Ying rocks are said to have been formed as stalactites.

In his seminal text on Chinese scholar’s rocks, Worlds Within Worlds, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1997, p. 26, Mowry notes the high opinion accorded to Ying rocks by Ming artists and aesthetes, and mentions in his treatise Zhangwu zhi (On the things of the world) as one example: “…Wen Zhenheng (1585-1645) ranked them second among scholars’ rocks, trailing only those of Lingbi.”

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 April 2019, lot 3049
Price: HKD 375,000 or approx. EUR 47,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A gray ‘ying’ scholar’s rock, Ming-Qing dynasty
Expert remark: Compare the related ying stone and form with similar crags and crevices. Note the size (43.2 cm).

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