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the substantial boulder of mountain form, worked in high relief to one face with a monk in a grotto, seated on a rocky ledge in front of a pile of books and staring at the walls in meditation, the grotto framed by cragged rockwork and wild shrubs, ?nely incised and gilt on the rock face with an imperial poem bearing the cyclical date of Qianlong renchen (in accordance with 1772), the stone of a bright purple-blue colour su?used with gold ?ecks and milky-white inclusions, the gilt-bronze stand cast in the form of a rock base with a lush of wild plants boulder 18.2 cm, 7? in.
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Acquired in China by Edmond D. Coblentz (1882-1959), a leading American photo journalist for Hearst newspapers. 清乾隆 青金石雕達摩面壁山子
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