Two carved hardstone landscape boulders
Two carved hardstone landscape boulders
The first of ovoid horizontal format, deeply undercut on one side with three gray beards playing weiqi under an overhanging pine tree, the olive green stone showing applied russet staining; the second boulder of zoosite and ruby matrix and vertical orientation, worked on both sides with travelers on a winding mountain pathway, the stone of dark leaf green with black spots and reddish-purple patches.
10 1/2in (26.6cm) length of first landscape boulder (2).
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Two carved hardstone landscape boulders
The first of ovoid horizontal format, deeply undercut on one side with three gray beards playing weiqi under an overhanging pine tree, the olive green stone showing applied russet staining; the second boulder of zoosite and ruby matrix and vertical orientation, worked on both sides with travelers on a winding mountain pathway, the stone of dark leaf green with black spots and reddish-purple patches.
10 1/2in (26.6cm) length of first landscape boulder (2).