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PROPERTY FROM THE QUEK KIOK LEE COLLECTION
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3013 AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED SHE OVAL INKSTONE
AN IMPERIAL YELLOW JADE INSCRIBED QIANLONG YUMING MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
ARCHER’S RING The top of the oval inkstone is carved with a smooth grinding
QIANLONG INSCRIBED YUTI MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) surface and a shallow well, framed by beaded edges. The reverse is
The ring is of characteristic cylindrical shape. The exterior is well incised and gilt with an imperial poem by the Qianlong Emperor
incised with an Imperial poem written by the Qianlong Emperor ending with Qianlong yuming ‘Imperially inscribed by Qianlong’,
between key-fret borders. The stone is of a pale yellowish-beige followed by two seals Qian, and long. The side is incised and gilt
colour with fine russet striations. with a ten-character inscription, Fang Han Weiyang zhuan haitian
1 in. (2.6 cm.) high chuyue yan, ‘Moon rising above sea” inkstone, in emulation of
an inkstone made of terracotta roof tile from the Han-dynasty
HK$150,000-200,000 US$20,000-26,000 Weiyang Palace’.
The poem inscribed on the archer’s ring is recorded in Qing 5 5 in. (14.2 cm) long, gilt-decorated box and cover, brocade box
Gaozong Yuzhishi (Imperial Poems of the Qianlong Emperor), HK$220,000-400,000 US$29,000-51,000
vol. 2 p. 43, p. 8.
A nearly identical inkstone with the same inscription is
illustrated in Xiqing Yanpu ‘A Compendium of the Qianlong
᪺̗㡳 㷍ἕ྽㧎だᇜቌ Ǘ̗㡳྽㧎ǘᢎ Emperor’s Imperial Inkstone Collection’, with the actual
inkstone, carved from Duan stone, in the collection of The
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National Palace Museum, Taipei, see The National Palace
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Museum’s Ancient Inkstones Illustrated in the Imperial
㏱ǯ㊲⬒㙄উԋ卿႞Ӷዺ≆ഞǯǹថ⛘ݻᝧǸԳ㪏ᇙ㯪ǹǯ㉼ Catalogue His-ch’ing yen-p’u, Taipei, 1997, no. 89. The imperial
ᙔ߅⯇Ƕ᳖㵶໵ᇙㅳ㉼Հ㫀 Ĥ ࣍୨ࢦӲĤ㮰 Ĥ ㉵ℱ㮕Ƿǯ poem is recorded in Qing Gaozong yuzhi shiwen quanji:
yuzhiwen, vol. 2, juan 39 (fig. 1).
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