Page 319 - Christie's, Important Chinese Works of Art December 2, 2015 HK

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTION

3305

A GROUP OF EIGHT IMPERIAL INK CAKES PROVENANCE

JIAQING PERIOD (1796-1820) Mary and George Bloch Collection; sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong,
23 October 2005, lot 66
Of various shapes, each ink cake is moulded in shallow relief on
The current set comes from a group of sixty-four, with each one
one side with a scene depicting a hall, garden, or other location in depicting a different scene from the imperial complexes. The rubbings
of the moulds for this set are illustrated in Ink Mould Engraving of
one of the imperial complexes, with the other side moulded with Huizhou, Hefei, 1985, pp. 39-102. Compare to lot 3306 in this catalogue
for another set belonging to this same group, and a complete set sold at
an inscription identifying the scene. The inscription and areas Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 November 2012, lot 2379.

of the decoration are highlighted in gilt with occasional green 䐒渿⍲匲㘢⌂䍵啷炻楁㷗喯⭴㭼炻2005⸜10㚰23㖍炻㉵⑩66嘇

details. Each bears a Jiaqing nianzhi mark on the side. The set is

accompanied by a two-tiered wooden box, the front of the cover

is incised with an inscription Mingyuantu wanmo, ‘ink cakes with

garden scenes’ with an inscription in ink reading Cuiyuzhuang,

‘Villa of verdant green’ to the left, and another ink inscription on

the silk cushion on the reverse citing the quantity in the set.

Box: 3 ‰ in. (10 cm.) high x 9 ¿ in. (23.2 cm.) wide x 6 ‰ in.

(17.5 cm.) deep, Japanese wood box (8)

HK$100,000-150,000 US$13,000-19,000

316