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A VERY RARE DUAN INK STONE 宋/明 端石二十八宿太史式硯

SONG-MING DYNASTY (960-1644) 來源:
The upper surface is smoothly polished with a narrow, shaped 大胡九華，二十世紀日本著名硯台藏家（傳）
indentation on one end forming the inkwell beneath an olive-green
‘eye’, flanked by a twelve-character inscription praising the ‘eye’ and 展覽:
the quality of the inkstone, followed by a two-character illegible 高島屋，橫濱，《四君子庵藏硯展》，1974年2月7-12日，
seal. The hollowed sloping underside is scattered with twenty- 圖錄頁21-22
eight cylinders of varying heights representing the Twenty-Eight 五島美術館，東京，《中国の名硯》，1977年7月1-31日，
Mansions of the Chinese constellation system, each of these cylinders 圖錄圖版42號
is centred with an ‘eye’. The right side of the ink stone is incised
with an inscription in seal script signed crown prince Guang after 橫濱Porta，橫濱，《中国名硯展》，1983年1月22-30日，
the style of Ouyang Xiu, with three two-character seals reading 圖錄圖版20號
Xiu yin (seal of Xiu), Yongshu (pseudonym of Ouyang Xiu), and 三越日本橋本店，東京，《中国名硯展》，1984年10月16-21日，
zhenshang (appreciated by), respectively, opposite to a seven-character 圖錄圖版19號
seal, Zhuyun shanzhuang wou luan shang (appreciated by the Villa of
Bamboo and Clouds). The inscription on the left side is signed Wu 棕紫端石，太史式硯，池呈一字，池上方有一高眼。硯背呈抄手樣斜下，斜面
Kuan, dated to the seventh month of the jiachen cyclical year of the 高下錯落共二十八眼柱，有若二十八星宿。硯池上方銘文：「具隻眼高於頂，
Chenghua reign (1484), followed by a two-character seal, Pao’an 惟下岩育神品。」，印：「□□」; 硯右邊銘文：「雲煙素紙星宿羅□文□燕許
(pseudonym of Wu Kuan), and another inscription signed Kuaiyu 肅幽王錢。賢□四年太子光師歐陽修銘」，印：「修印、永叔、真賞」，
Tang dated to the first day of the first month of an unkonwn year 印：「竹雲山莊臥鑾賞」；硯左邊銘文：「成化甲辰秋七月。吳寬收藏。」，
during the Jiaqing reign (1796-1820), followed by a four-character 印：「匏菴」，「嘉慶元春快玉堂。鑒賞。」，印：「王氏禹卿」。
seal of Wang Yuqing. The stone is of a deep purplish-brown colour
with olive-green mottling and dark brown veining.
9º in. (23.7 cm.) long, Japanese wood box

HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-64,000
P R O V E NAN C E :
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Daigo Kyuka, a Japanese inkstone collector in the 20 century,
by repute
E X H I B I T ED :
Takashiyama Department Store, Yokohama, Exhibition of ink stones
from the collection of Shikunshi-an, 7-12 February 1974, Catalogue,
pp. 21-22
Gotoh Art Museum, Tokyo, Masterpieces of Chinese ink stones,
1-31 July 1977, Catalogue, p. 36, no. 42
Yokohama Porta, Masterpieces of Chinese ink stones, 22-30 January
1983, Catalogue, pp. 44-45, no. 20
Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Honten, Tokyo, Masterpieces of Chinese ink
stones, 16-21 October 1984, Catalogue, p. 28, no. 19

(inscriptions on the sides 兩側銘文) (underside 底部)

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