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A VERY RARE IMPERIAL INSCRIBED CHENGNI 清乾隆戊戌年（1778） 御題澄泥虎伏硯連紫檀包袱式盒
TIGER-FORM INK STONE AND COVER, ZITAN
STAND AND COVER 來源:
大阪玉林堂第七代目藤尾博舊藏，後於家族中流傳
DATED TO THE WUXU YEAR OF THE QIANLONG REIGN,
CORRESPONDING TO 1778, AND OF THE PERIOD 全器作臥虎之形，色褐紫，器表滿佈仿古銅器的青綠鏽色。硯面沿邊起細
稜，蓋邊突起寬邊以與硯身扣合。墨池呈太極圖形，墨堂略凹。硯蓋虎首兩
The ink stone and cover are moulded as a crouching tiger, the
recessed underside of the cover is inscribed with a Qianlong imperial 小耳微尖，雙眼高突，略具貓態。蓋內陰刻清高宗隸書硯銘：「呂老所造，茲
poem dated to the summer of the wuxu year (1778), followed by two 不可得；金閶巧鍛，如伏虎式，球琳其質，青綠其色；置之舊側，幾難別白；
seals, bide, ‘comparing to virtue’, langrun, ‘bright and lustrous’, both 列於文房，友乎子墨；幾暇怡情，揮毫是北；每繹旅獒，不無慚德。」款：「乾
covered with mottled green and gilt patination. The zitan stand and 隆戊戌仲夏，御銘」，印：「比德」、「朗潤」。
cover are finely carved overall as a ribbon-tied, brocade-wrapped
gift divided into quadrants by the ribbon which is superimposed 配原裝紫檀包袱式盒，蓋面銘：「虎伏硯」，蓋內陰刻描金相同硯銘及款識，
atop the bow by a rectangular panel carved with the characters hu fu 盒內陰刻描金：「乾隆御用」，印：「幾暇臨池」。
yan, 'crouching tiger inkstone', the quadrants carved with different
scenes of birds in flight above waves from which rise various flowers 另附日本木盒，其蓋內書有日本明治昭和時代漢學家、硯學家、書法家小
and grasses, the interior of the cover carved and gilt with the same 野鍾山（1880-1952）之題識：「是實為宋時所製澄泥古研，其色鱔魚黃而
imperial poem followed by the date and two seals, the top of the 微帶蟹殼青色，鋒鋩有力，發墨正佳也，況研制古雅，真可謂几案上之好伴
stand carved with a four-character inscription, Qianlong yuyong, 侶。昭和丁卯春日鍾山生志眼福。」印：鍾山審定。
‘for the personal use of Qianlong’, followed by a four-character seal,
ji xia ling chi, 'a brief moment to practice calligraphy'. 《西清硯譜》卷23頁34至37錄有一形制相同之乾隆御題澄泥虎伏硯。現
Zitan box 6¡ in. (16.3 cm.) long; inkstone 5º in. (13.3 cm.) long, 存其他近似例可參考台北故宮博物院藏一件，其曾收貯於圓明園文源閣，
Japanese wood box 見《乾隆皇帝的文化大業》，台北，2000年，頁113，圖III-4；胡惠春舊藏
一例，其硯身與硯蓋非原配，2009年9月15日於紐約佳士得拍賣，拍品237
HK$4,000,000-6,000,000 US$520,000-770,000 號；2010年6月4日北京保利拍賣一例，拍品4146號，及2015年6月6日保利
北京拍賣另一例，拍品6535號。
P R O V E NAN C E :
Fujio Hiroshi (1951-2013), the seventh-generation owner of
Gyokurindo, Osaka, thence by descent within the family
A detailed description with illustrations of a Qianlong imperial inscribed
chengni ink stone of identical form is included in the Xiqing Yanpu ‘A
Compendium of the Qianlong Emperor’s Imperial Inkstone Collection’,
juan 23, pp. 34-37. For other Qianlong imperial inscribed ink stones of this
form, see an example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated
in Emperor Ch’ien-lung’s Grand Cultural Enterprise, Taipei, 2000, p. 113,
fig. III-4; one from the J. M. Hu collection, but the ink stone and cover a
marriage, sold at Christie’s New York, 15 September 2009, lot 237; one
sold at Beijing Poly, 4 June 2010, lot 4146; and one sold at Beijing Poly,
6 June 2015, lot 6535.

The present lot is accompanied by a Japanese wood box with an
inscription by Ono Shozan (1880-1952) dated to 1927. Ono Shozan was a
prestigious Japanese sinologist and calligrapher of the Meiji and Showa
periods, who was well-known for his knowledge of the Four Treasures of
the Study. He appraised artworks for and worked with noble families and
private collectors.

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