California Asian Art Auction California Asian Art Auction
 March 10, 2017  March 10, 2017

 Lot # 1103 
GUO MAOJIE: TIANHUANG 'FIGURES AND LANDSCAPE' CARVING    郭懋介 (1924 - 2013) 1988年作 田黃烏鴉皮巧雕「撫琴圖」薄意擺件


  • Dimension: Height without stand: 3 1/4 in (8.3 cm) Width: 2 1/2 in (6.4 cm) Weight: 284 g
  • Estimate From: $12000
  • Estimate To: $22000

Of irregular shape, the tianhuang stone carved around the sides in shallow relief through dark skin with a tranquil scene depicting three immortal figures conversing around a table below a tree on a rocky outcrop, with pavilion and waterfall to the background, the dark skin cleverly left to depict the auspicious clouds rising upward; the reverse carved with an elderly figure playing guqin by a large pine tree, with smoke rising from a censer nearby; one side carved on the dark skin with inscription and signed Shi Qing and dated to the year of 1988.


郭懋介,當代壽山石雕大師,福建福州市人,字石卿,號介伯、耿白。師從壽山石雕東門派代表人物林友竹,擅人物圓雕及浮雕、薄意,兼工篆刻、書畫,以雕刻薄意而著稱。
來源: 洛杉磯李惠英女士舊藏