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AN IMPERIALLY INSCRIBED INKSTONE- 清乾隆 御題詩海水雙龍紋硯式墨
SHAPED INK CAKE
詩文:
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD 固因磨墨有陶泓，硯也何來即墨卿。
(1736-1795) 新樣非關誇手巧，別裁可識寓思精。
The ink cake is moulded on one side with two five-clawed dragons 必偕出處猶為遠，相忘主賓莫與爭。
emerging from crashing waves, all within an archaistic kuidragon
border at the rim. The reverse is inscribed with an imperial poem 聲應氣求求應在，研來合相祇天成。
dated to Qianlong cyclical gengyin year corresponding to 1770,
followed by two leisure seals reading bide, `comparing to virtue’, 後題：劉源者，康熙初年間人也。內府藏所製博古墨，有以硯為
and langrun, `bright and lustrous’. The sides are inscribed with a 式者，因題句。乾隆庚寅仲春月上澣御題
Qianlong six-character mark and another five characters reading
Suichu tang xang mo, ‘ink cake stoned in the Pursue One’s Original 鈐印：比德、朗潤
Ambition Hall’.
66 in. (17 cm.) long, cloth box
左、右邊框：遂初堂藏墨、大清乾隆年製
HK$180,000-250,000 US$24,000-32,000 來源:
水松石山房舊藏
P R O V E NAN C E :
Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection
清高宗御題硯銘出自《清高宗御製詩集·三集·卷八十七》(圖一)。比較一清
The imperial poem inscribed on the present ink cake is recorded in Qing 宮舊藏形制幾近相同之乾隆款海水龍紋硯式墨，惟龍紋有貼金、側邊框飾
Gaozong yuzhi shiwen quanji: yuzhishi, vol. 3, juan 87 (fig. 1). Compare to
a nearly identical ink cake with gilding on the two dragons and additional 有夔龍紋，參見北京故宮博物院官網。
decoration on the sides, is in the collection of Beijing Palace Museum,
which does not appear to be published but can be found on the Palace
Museum website.

fig. 1 圖一

(back view 背面)

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