Superb scholar rock Ling Bi stone

This is a most prized Lingbi scholar's rock. It is a beautiful black Lingbi, with the prized wrinkling and reasonance. The contemporary stand is meticulously crafted and holds the stone in a perfect position. The Chinese interest in collecting rocks for religious or aesthetic purposes has been 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. There are also references to the special qualities of garden rocks and individual stones in poems dating as far back as the Tang dynasty (618-907). These rocks represented a focus for meditation of religious 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 of the world around them, there were also many that reminded the connoisseurs of famous 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 of nature, overlapping layers or planes that impart depth, and hollows or perforations that create rhythmic, harmonious patterns.

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