Pair of Beautiful Carved Sculpture Lapis and Jade

A great and beautiful Lapis Lazuli sculpture of circa 1950, produced in India.

Pair of bronze sculptures Uomini topo designed and produced by Andrea Branzi in 1988-1990 for Alchimia. Biography Seminal Italian architect, designer and educator Andrea Branzi held...

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...

Vintage hand-carved jade stone statue was cleverly sculpted to depict fully laden grapevines, combined with a naturally colored rouge segment below creating the illusion of a gnarly grapevine root...