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AN IMPERIAL MOULDED AND CARVED 清乾隆 御題「仿唐八稜澄泥硯」 「乾隆御銘」、
INKSTONE-SHAPED OCTAGONAL INK CAKE 「臣徵瑞恭進」款

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) 硯背描金款識：
The octagonal ink cake is carved on top with an undecorated central 一規內涵八稜砥，琢端匹絳潤而理，平水圓璧安足擬。乾隆御銘。
`grinding surface’ encircled with a narrow water trough, all within
a border finely carved and gilt with four carps and three mythical 鈐印：比德、朗潤
beasts amidst waves. The reverse is inscribed and gilt with an
imperial poem followed by four characters reading Qianlong yuming 硯壁：仿唐八稜澄泥硯。臣徵瑞恭進
and two seals reading bide,`comparing to virtue’, and langrun, `bright
and lustrous’. The sides are inscribed with fang tang baleng chengni yan, 來源:
`imitating the octagonal inkstone of the Tang dynasty', and chen Clare Lawrence，紐約，1999年3月 (傳)
Zhengrui gong jin, 'respectfully presented by your humble servant, 水松石山房舊藏
Zhengrui'.
3√ in. (10 cm.) diam.
澄泥硯為中國四大名硯之一，盛於唐宋。此墨仿唐澄泥硯形製，所鐫之清高宗
HK$150,000-250,000 US$20,000-32,000 御題硯銘出自《清高宗御製文集·二集·卷三十九》(圖一)。比較一造型相同
之清乾隆仿唐八稜澄泥硯，鐫有不同的御題銘但帶同款鈐印，紀錄於西清硯
P R O V E NAN C E : 譜卷，載於《台北國立故宮博物院西清硯譜古硯特展》，台北，1997年，頁414-
Clare Lawrence, New York, March 1999, by repute 415，編號91。另一近似例清乾隆戊戍年（1778）御題八方歙硯於2011年6月1日
Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection 拍賣於香港佳士得，拍品3625號。
Chengni inkstones are ceramic inkstones made of refined clay; it was
considered the best inkstone material during Tang dynasty. The present
lot is inspired by such, and the imperial poem on this ink cake is recorded
in Qing Gaozong yuzhi shiwen quanji: yuzhiwen, vol. 2, juan 39 (fig. 1).
Compare to a similar imperial octagonal inkstone inscribed with a
different poem but with same seals recorded in Xiqing Yanpu, included
in The National Palace Museum's Ancient Inkstones Illustrated in the
Imperial Catalogue Hsi-ch'ing yen-p'u, Taipei, 1997, pp. 414-415, no. 91.
Another example of a Qianlong inscribed She inkstone was sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3625.

(inscriptions on the sides 側面銘文)

fig. 1 圖一

(back view 背面)

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