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PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
A RARE SET OF EIGHT IMPERIALLY
INSCRIBED INK CAKES
JIAQING MARKS AND PERIOD
each of rectangular form, moulded to one
face with a landscape taken from a painting
by Yun Shouping, accompanied with a title
in gilt, the reverse impressed and gilt with a
corresponding poem beneath a yuzhi mark,
the sides incisded with a six-character reign
mark, all within a fitted rectangular lacquer
box and cover, the cover inlaid with mother-
of-pearl around the rims and painted in
gold lacquer with two ferocious five-clawed
dragons writhing amidst stylised clouds,
centrered on an inscription inlaid in mother-
of-pearl, reading Yu ti Yun Shouping fang
Nizan Ba wan tu shi mo (‘Imperially inscribed
ink cakes with eight paintings by Yun
Shouping in the style of Nizan and poem)
(10)
Each 10.7 by 5.1 by 1.7 cm, 4¼ by 2 by⅝ in.

‡ £ 15,000-25,000
HK$ 147,000-245,000 US$ 18,800-31,200
清嘉慶 御題詩
「惲壽平仿倪瓚八萬圖」
墨錠一組八件
《大清嘉慶年製》款

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