China Guardian (Hong Kong)'s 2024 Spring Auction Classical Furniture Department presents "Linlang – The Art of Gold and Stone from Important Private Collections in Asia", which for the first time presents nearly 100 pieces/groups of lots with the concept of gold and stone, including ancient seals, weapons, bronzes, and literati stones.
Among them, Ding Wen's father Ni Liuzhai treasured the stone appreciation topic, a total of 17 pieces of literati appreciation stones, British stone, Lingbi, Taihu Lake and other categories, the form is good, and there are also good stories behind the inscriptions.
Lot 1153"150×78×40cm ESTIMATE:HKD 2,000,000-3,000,000
Ding Wenfu, "The Rediscovered History of Chinese Sculpture: A Complete Narrative from Stone Tools, Pottery, Pottery Statues, Bronzeware, Vulgar Statues, Buddha Statues to Stone Appreciation", Figure 7-4, Cultural Relics Publishing House, 2024, pp. 392-397.
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This is a white marble mountain that is extremely rare in shape and carving. The shape is dignified, and it has the shaping style of the mountain stone of the Tang Dynasty. The whole body is embossed with a round muddy "Buddha's hand". "Buddha" and "Fu" are homophonic, meaning "Fushan", so the stone should be called "Fushan Stone".
Figure 2
The round and muddy carvings are mostly found on the pedestals of the Imperial Garden, such as the Lingbi Stone Pedestal on the west side of Gyeongbokgung Palace in the Ningshou Palace of the Forbidden City (Ning 12 of the Imperial Garden) and the Sumeru Mountain-shaped Pedestal in the Bafang Gate of the Bilin Pavilion of the Jianfu Palace Garden (with picture 2) (see Jin Hongkui, "The Stone Pedestal of the Palace Jianfugong Garden", Journal of the Palace Museum, No. 10, 2020).
The practice of appreciating the whole body of the stone can be seen in the Tuancheng (West 1 of the Imperial Garden Appreciation of Stones) in Xiyuan (present-day Beihai, Beijing), Jingxinzhai in Xiyuan (with picture 3), the ruins of the Old Summer Palace (with picture 4), and the stone appreciation in the Anshan Hall of Prince Gong's Mansion. This kind of stone carving ornament has the characteristics of sharp edges, sharp edges, and relatively straight and hard line carvings. The Zhongshan stone of the Qianlong Nine Dragon Wall in Beihai Park, Beijing, is also characterized by sharp edges, sharp edges, and relatively straight and hard line carvings (Figure 5). Nanjing Purple Mountain Observatory has a bronze armillary sphere, built in the Ming Dynasty orthodox two years (1437), its four corners of the copper cast "Qianshan", "Kunshan", "Genshan", "Xunshan" is also the practice of the whole body carving, among which the "Kunshan" whole body carving has the characteristics of sharp edges, edge to the ground, line carving is relatively straight and hard, "Qianshan" whole body carving is completely wireless carving and edge of the characteristics of the ground, the shape is relatively plump and round,
Figure 6
Like a "Buddha's hand" (illustrated with picture 6), the shapes of the "Genshan" and "Xunshan" are somewhere between the "Kunshan" and the "Qianshan". Judging from the examples with reliable dates, the age span of the pointed ridge carvings is large, the earliest is "Kunshan", and the latest is the mountain stone carved in the Qianlong Nine Dragon Wall in Beihai Park, Beijing. The age of the round hun carvings is limited to the early Ming Dynasty, such as the "Qianshan" and the Nine Dragon Wall in the 25th year of the reign of Hongwu (1392) of the Zhu Gui Dynasty in Datong, Shanxi Province (Figure 7). It can be inferred from this that the age of this "Fushan" stone should be the early Ming Dynasty. The Forbidden City was burned down in the second year after the completion of the 18th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), the three major halls were rebuilt in the fifth year of orthodoxy (1440), and the West Garden was built in the third year of Tianshun (1459). Most of the stone bases of the Ming Dynasty in the Imperial Garden of the Forbidden City were built in the early Ming Dynasty, such as the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, nineth, tenth, eleven, twelve, eighteenth, and nineteenth of the Imperial Garden, and the symmetrical arrangement of the north eaves of the Yanchun Pavilion in the Jianfu Palace Garden also belonged to the early Ming Dynasty. According to the above-mentioned records of the construction of the royal palace, it is speculated that this "Fushan" stone may have been made during the construction of the Forbidden City during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, or during the restoration period of the Orthodox period, or during the construction of the Xiyuan during the Tianshun period. If this is true, the Sumeru mountain-shaped seat in the Bafang Gate of the Bilin Pavilion in the Garden of Jianfu Palace should also be made in the early Ming Dynasty. Judging from the stone appreciation in the Forbidden City Imperial Garden and the early Ming Dynasty stone carvings unearthed in recent years, the craftsmanship of the early Ming Dynasty stone carvings is very exquisite, reflecting not only the elegance and delicacy of the southern craftsmen, but also the excellence of the court craftsmen, and the craftsmanship of this "Fushan" stone is no exception. This stone is included in the "Rediscovered History of Chinese Sculpture".
Other lots are worth it
Lot 1139 ESTIMATE:HKD 30,000×-50×000
The peak is green and beautiful, with vertical and long hooked holes, as well as horizontal stone veins. On the whole, it is big and small, and it has the tendency to soar into the sky.
Lot 1141 ESTIMATE:HKD 100,000×-200×000
Chrysanthemum stone is not a chrysanthemum fossil, because the crystals formed by calcite or andalusite in the stone body resemble chrysanthemums. This stone openwork is carved to highlight the chrysanthemums and carve the branches and leaves. The stone inscription "The popularity of the stone is elegant, the stone edge of the chrysanthemum is cherished", and the inscription "Juru". The writing method of "And" is special, quite the style of the Song Dynasty "Han Jian", and is commonly used by the Ming people in seal carving.
This stone is the old collection of Zhang Shibao's family in Laizhou, Shandong.
Zhang Shibao (1805-1878), known as "Juru" and "Juru", was a native of Laizhou, Shandong, and a famous painter and scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. It is said that Zhang is fond of gold and stone writing, line, Kai, seal, subordinate, everything is refined, especially Zhong Dingwen is good, poetry has a special interest, and the most prestigious is painting. Landscapes, flowers and birds, not falling permanently, ingenuity is unique; especially the work figures, the brushwork is elegant, the form is quiet, and it has won the true inheritance of the ancient law of Chen Hongshou and Cui Zizhong. In 1860 (the tenth year of Xianfeng), he lived in Kyoto, and formed a painting club with Qin Yiting (Qin Bingwen) and Wang Shuming (Wang Shuming) in Songyunan, which is famous in Kyoto. There are books, paintings, and writings that have been handed down from generation to generation.
Lot 1142 ESTIMATE:HKD 120×,000-220×000
This stone shape is the unique cirrus head shape of Taihu Lake stone, the size of the hole is sparse and dense, and the potential, rhyme and beauty. Although the stone surface is covered with yellow-brown slurry, you can still see the fine and white stone underneath.
Lot 1143 Ming Yingshi Shanzi 32×32×18cm There is an inscription in the year of Xianfeng: Just what is the limit of the monolith, and the ancient bureau of Shi Si sent a deep sigh. Xianfeng Era Exhibition. ESTIMATE: HKD 120,000-220,000
This stone is strangely shaped, detached from the concrete and highlights the character of the best product. The large and small holes in the stone are natural, and the stone surface has many marble nests and white rock veins, and the slurry is abundant.
Zhang Yin (1761-1829) was a painter of the Qing Dynasty. The word Bao, the number of Xi'an, Xidao people, also known as Qiaoshan Jushi, Guanbai Jushi, etc., Dantu (now Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province) people. He is good at poetry and painting, and has close contacts with celebrities such as Pan Gongshou and Wang Wenzhi.
Lot 1145 ESTIMATE:HKD 30,000×-50×000
This stone peak is undulating, there are waterways between them, the pulp is rich, moist and elegant.
Lot 1150 ESTIMATE:HKD 20,000-40××000
This stone shape is frustrated and twisted, the stone surface is dry and vigorous, and it has the atmosphere of antiquity.
Engraved square chapter style: "Zhou Xianzhen plays".
Zhou Xian (1820-1875), a native of Xiushui, Zhejiang (now Jiaxing), a famous poet in the late Qing Dynasty, a seal carver, and a famous painter of the maritime painting school. The rich gold stone school is educated, likes to use the line, and the atmosphere is simple and thick. His works include "The Biography of Ren Shishi", "Fan Hu Thatched Cottage Words" and so on.
Lot 1152 51×57×28 cm ESTIMATE:HKD 120,000-220,000
Publication: Ding Wenfu, The Rediscovered History of Chinese Sculpture: A Complete Narrative from Stone Tools, Pottery, Pottery Statues, Bronzeware, Vulgar Statues, Buddha Statues to Stone Appreciation, Figure 7-12, Cultural Relics Publishing House, 2024, p. 437.
The shape of this stone is extremely strange, the pulp is particularly thick, and the stone skin is dark black, so it is inferred that the stone is a relic of the Yuan Dynasty.
Lot 1147 Yuan Yao Shijun Inscription Red Taihu Shishanzi 47×60×22cmEstimate: HKD 120,000-220,000
Publication: Ding Wenfu, "The Rediscovered History of Chinese Sculpture: A Complete Narrative from Stone Tools, Pottery, Pottery Statues, Bronze Ware, Vulgar Statues, Buddha Statues to Stone Appreciation", Figure 7-10, Cultural Relics Publishing House, 2024, p. 435.
There are two seals: "The Seal of the World" and "Yitang" (thanks to an old friend of Zhejiang Xinchang and An Shiwen).
The shape of this stone is extremely strange, the surface vortex and hole are unique, and it is the trace of the erosion of the lake stone. The slurry is particularly thick, and the stone skin is brownish-red, and it is inferred from the shape and slurry that the stone is a relic of the Yuan Dynasty.
The flatter part of the side is engraved with the inscription of the Qianlong year: "Extremely ancient, the inscription is also beyond the customs, the exhibition can not let go, the cover spirit gathers, all become gems, and the townspeople suddenly open up." On the first day of September in the fourth year of Qianlong, Wu Xing, Yao Shizhen, and the cause of the problem."
China Guardian Hong Kong Spring Auction 2024
Linlang – Asia's most important private collection of gold and stone art
拍卖：4月7日 | 4:30pm
预展：4月3 - 5日 | 10am - 8pm
4月6日 | 10am - 6pm
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre | Exhibition hall 5FG
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