A unique black and white luminous “moon light” reflection on a bay and water stirs your eye and awaits you in a bubbling tide in this Chinese extraordinary natural marble stone landscape painting called a dream stone Shih-hua.

Moonlight stones are stones that Chinese collectors think of as moonlight reflecting off water.

It is a beautiful work of nature. Totally natural. With its original collector flat black frame.

Dimensions:
Frame: 14 inches tall and 32.5 inches width
Site: 11 inches tall and 29.5 inches width

This thin marble stone painting is approximately 3/8 inch thick and is cut from a large slab of rough material revealing a unique, incredible pattern in white, cream and dark colors.

This unique work of art was from historic Dali marble found in the Cangshan mountains of western China. These mysterious mountains, unique in the world, are known for yielding incredible and fantastic natural landscaped works of art created over tens of millions of years from mineral inclusions that affected the process of ancient organic material which transformed into limestone and finally resulted in marble- a metamorphic hard stone.

This art form is centuries of years old since the Ming dynasty. Dream stones became favored art in the west particularly since the 19th century when French collectors named them Pierres de reve.

History of Moon light dream stone paintings:

Provenance: Private Chinese collection, Yunnan, China.

Reference: Dreaming of Dreamstones China’s Extraordinary Natural Stone Paintings, Schneible Fine Arts. Dreaming of Dreamstones – World’s first comprehensive English text publication covers China’s extraordinary natural Stone Paintings, by author and dream stone lecturer Douglas Schneible, 35 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-0-578. See photos.

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