A stone carved as a cut of shark meat. Agate
A stone carved as a cut of shark meat. Agate
Realistically carved in the form of a cut of shark meat with a rough, pimply, grey skin above three distinctly textured layers, two beige-white in colour and polished smooth, with a pitted, segmented, rust-brown section in-between. The stone sits on a fitted stand of gilt bronze cast as frothing, swirling waves above a band of lotus leaves.
Length circa 10.3 cm
瑪瑙魚皮型石附金屬座
可比:故宮玉器選萃,國立故宮博物院,薹北1970年,圖50
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A stone carved as a cut of shark meat. Agate
Realistically carved in the form of a cut of shark meat with a rough, pimply, grey skin above three distinctly textured layers, two beige-white in colour and polished smooth, with a pitted, segmented, rust-brown section in-between. The stone sits on a fitted stand of gilt bronze cast as frothing, swirling waves above a band of lotus leaves.
Length circa 10.3 cm
瑪瑙魚皮型石附金屬座
可比:故宮玉器選萃,國立故宮博物院,薹北1970年,圖50