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BEYOND COMPARE: A Thousand Years of the Literati Aesthetic

PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE PRIVATE COLLECTION

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AN EXTREMELY RARE DUAN INKSTONE ҂ ׼ ၌ͩ׼˜ɚɤɞ੖˄̦ό೸
SONG-MING DYNASTY (960-1644)
The upper surface is smoothly polished with a narrow, shaped indentation
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on one end forming the inkwell beneath an olive-green ‘eye’. The ͺ༺࢕dɤɘ˰ߏɝᔛ ኽෂ
hollowed sloping underside is scattered with twenty-eight cylinders of
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varying heights representing the Twenty-Eight Mansions of the Chinese
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constellation system, below another ‘eye’ at the corner symbolising the
moon, each of these cylinders is centred with an ‘eye’. The stone is of a ɨ͞ߡʆdɝᔛ׵ ϋ
deep purplish-brown colour with olive-green mottling and dark brown ؒ؍ඩ̨dɝᔛ׵ ϋ˸ۃ
veining. ˚͉ӷɛޜᔛd׵ ϋ˾ܝಂɝᔛ
9 ƒ in. (24.1 cm.) wide, rosewood stand and cover, wood box
HK$400,000-600,000 US$51,000-77,000 ࢝ᚎ
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PROVENANCE
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Date Family, acquired in 19th century (by repute) ࣣ߹‘dୋɧ՜gୋɓ໮d؇ԯd ϋdࠫ €ྡɓ
Nagao Uzan (1864-1942), Kyoto
Τ೸࢝‘d؇ԯd ϋdᇜ໮
Matsunaga Shuji (1884-1972), Tokushima Prefecture
Shimoda Kozan (dates unknown), acquired in 1938
Matsubayashi Gadai (dates unknown), acquired before 1943
A Japanese private collection, acquired in the late 1980s
EXHIBITED
Mayuyama Ryusendo, Meikenten, 9-15 October 1987, no. 13
LITERATURE
Shoen, vol. 3: no. 1, Tokyo, 1939, p. 47 (fig. 1)
Meikenten, Tokyo, 1987, no. 13

fig. 1 Shoen, vol. 3: no. 1, Tokyo, 1939 (cover, and p. 47 where the present ink stone is
illustrated)
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