溯源古代赏石配座小史

The History of Chinese Viewing-stone Pedestal(Wooden Ones)

<正>有一个很有意思的现象:尽管如今大家都一致认可底座在赏石中的重要作用。如古代赏石的鉴定,更多地也是依赖于是否有原配或旧配底座。更有甚者,美国已故雕塑家、中国'文人石'收藏家理查德·罗森布鲁姆(Richard Rosenblum,1940~2000)曾表示:'木座是一个戏剧化的装置,它实际上使石头成为了艺术品。离开了木座,你会感觉石头与艺术是如此的不相像……'。尽管底座这么重要,但是,关于古代赏石底座的文献记录和图绘形象却少之又少,出土文物更是无从所见。虽然有一些传世的古代赏石,但其底座是否原配?

Nowadays,the important role of the viewing-stone pedestal has got the unanimous approval.For example,the appraisal of the stone-appreciation in the ancient time is more likely depends on whether it has original or old pedestal.What is more,the late American sculptor and the Chinese collector Richard Rosenblum who likes the stone for scholars had expressed that the wooden pedestal is a kind of dramatic device,actually,it can makes the stone becomes the work of art.But there is still an interesting phenomenon:even though the pedestal of the viewing stone plays such an important role,but we can seldom see much document record and drawing image about it,not to say the unearthed relic.Although there are some stone that handed down from the ancient time,but do they have their pedestal?When the pedestal been made?Whether the inscription has the doubts?All of these seem to be a mystery waiting people to crack.