Chinese scholars' objects

found: Work cat: Room for study : fifty scholars' objects, 2019:foreword (objects from the Chinese scholar's studio; "Objects considered necessary to the scholar's studio serve either by being vehicles for contemplation or practical utensils ... The studio would include ... furniture for the practice of painting and calligraphy together with accoutrements needed for it such as brushes, brush rests, brushpots, scroll weights, washers and inkstones ... For the purpose of pure contemplation nature was brought into the studio in the shape of rocks and roots.")

found: Art of the natural world : resonances of wild nature in Chinese sculptural art, 2001:page 27 ("some of these natural objects, such as the more classic scholars' rocks or more refined brushrests, clearly fall into the art historical category of scholars' objects")

found: Arts from the scholar's studio, 1986:foreword (objects that the Chinese scholar favoured and used in his work)

found: Gotheborg.com Dictionary on antique Chinese and Japanese pottery and porcelain, November 7, 2019(Scholar's objects; term usually refers to artistic objects that traditionally were used by a Chinese scholar in his studio but includes everything from tables, screens and chairs to the smaller objects found on the scholar's desk)