Chinese Carved Soap Stone Figurines

Chinese Carved Wood Standing Guanyin Sculpture, with remnants of gesso and polychrome paint. 49.5" H x 18" W x 11.5" D. Provenance: From a New York City Collection.

Pair of Chinese Sancai Glazed Ceramic Foo Dog Bookends, seated on rectangular bases. 12.5" H x 4.75" W x 2.5" D. Provenance: From the Collection of a New York City Musician.

A Chinese scholar rock carved from a natural lapis stone and displayed on a brocade wrapped stand circa late 19th century Qing Dynasty. The brightly blue lapis was considered as am exotic gemstone in China and mostly imported from Persia through the silk road. While not a conventional rock types of materials for scholar stones, it is occasionally carved and polished into smaller Gongshi to be displayed and meditated upon in the scholar's study. Similar approaches were also done with jade, malachite and turquoise, even petrified wood, Chenxiang Agarwood, roots in spirited form, porcelain and even bronze in rock forms. The lapis was carved into a mountain form with stacked rocks...

A Chinese scholar stone in an upright mushroom form displayed on a custom wood stand. Wonderful and well-balanced, the ocher and cream color ston...