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Top left; “Eagle”, Lingbi stone.
Place of origin: Anhui, China,
measurements: 35 cm w x 16
cm d x 41 cm h
Top right; “Grape”, grape agate.
Place of origin: Gobi Desert,
China, measurements: 9,5 cm
w x 6.5 cm d x 13 cm h
Middle left; “Clouds over Gutao”,
Yunjin stone. Place of origin:
Hubei, China, measurements:
18 cm w x 8 cm d x 30 cm h
Middle right; Mohu stone.
Place of origin: Guangdong,
China, measurements: 16 cm
w x 10 cm d x 25 cm h
Bottom; “Picturesque Clouds
(are floating) over Penglai”,
Taihu stone, stand of Huang
Huali wood (= rosewood),
place of origin: Jiangsu, China,
measurements: 48 cm w x 16
cm d x 31 cm h

was said that a garden could not be beautiful without
rare, unusual (“ugly”) rocks, and that a studio lacked
elegance without a spirit rock. Fantastic rocks and
stones featured on many ancient scrolls and pictures
and are subject of numerous poems. The beauty of
their abstract form is the essence of their aesthetic
value and is based (connected to) on the ancient philo-
sophical conception and world-view of Daoism. They
embody beauty of nature. The Berlin museum owns
an exquisite collection of Chinese and Japanese paint-
ings/scrolls with rocks combined with plants, animals
or people.

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