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56      TWO MOLDED AND INSCRIBED                    EXHIBITED
                         INK CAKES                                   The ‘dragon and phoenix’ ink cake:
                                                                     Chinese Works of Art from the Scholar’s Study: Exhibition and
                㶭ġġġ 漵   QING DYNASTY                                Sale, Spink & Son, New York, 1986, cat. no. 102.
                    佼    the rectangular ink cake molded on one side with a baluster jar   LITERATURE
                    沛    positioned atop a platform representing Mount Heng surrounded
                    准    by a roiling sea, ‘precious dew’ rising from the mouth of the jar,   The rectangular ink cake:
                    ⡐    the reverse molded and gilt with a 58-character inscription, the   Soame Jenyns, Chinese Art: The Minor Arts II, New York, 1965,
                    ⍲    side molded with a 15-chracter inscription corresponding to the   pl. 212.
                    ⮞    wuchen year of the Kangxi reign, 1688; the hexagonal-section   Soame Jenyns, Chinese Art III, New York, 1982, pl. 212.
                    曚    ‘dragon and phoenix’ ink cake molded in high relief with a four-  ႒  $ 3,000-5,000
                    冢    clawed dragon and a phoenix soaring towards one another, their
                    ⡐    bodies energetically twisting mid-ß ight, inscribed long xiang feng   漵佼沛准⡐ġĻ˪傉攳㔯䚋墥˫㫦
                         wu (‘dragon soars, phoenix dances’) on one side, and Hu Kaiwen   ⮞曚冢⡐ġĻ˪⹟䅁ㆲ彘⸜⎌㬁㚡俾冋䳈≇㮷䍵啷˫㫦
                         jianzhi (‘supervised by Hu Kaiwen) on another side (2)
                                                                     Ը๕
                         Length of longer 8⅜ in., 21.2 cm            ⮞曚冢⡐ġĻ
                                                                     œŢŭűũġŎįġńũŢŪŵġňŢŭŭŦųŪŦŴ炻䲸䲬炻IJĺĹĴ⸜ĵ㚰ĺ㖍
                                                                     ἃ伭ΐ㕗ġĩIJĺijıĮijıIJĹĪġ⍲崓ỗ䈡ġĩIJĺIJĸĮijıIJķĪɀ㫸暚ằ⃟㓞
                         PROVENANCE                                  啷炻䶐嘇ĹĸĹ
                         The rectangular ink cake:
                         Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 9th April 1983.  漵佼沛准⡐ġĻ
                         Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016)   ŔűŪůŬġħġŔŰů炻ΐ㔎炻IJĺĹĸ⸜ij㚰ij㖍
                         Irving, no. 878.
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                                                                     啷炻䶐嘇IJĹķIJ
                         The ‘dragon and phoenix’ ink cake:
                         Spink & Son, London, 2nd February 1987.     ࢝ᚎ
                         Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016)
                         Irving, no. 1861.                           漵佼沛准⡐ġĻ
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