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A DUAN RECTANGULAR INK STONE 明萬曆丁丑年（1577） 端石長方形硯
SIGNED QINGTENG LAOREN, DATED DINGCHOU CYCLICAL YEAR,
CORRESPONDING TO 1577 AND OF THE PERIOD 硯背刻銘：「玄亭臥起琴書冷，吹斷秋霜子夜長。丁丑秋七
The ink stone is dark purplish-brown in colour and smoothly 月、青藤老人」
polished. It is carved on one side with a flat grinding surface with 徐渭（1521-1593），字文長，號青藤老人，明代著名文學家、書畫家。
a slightly recessed circular centre and an integral water pool. The
reverse is engraved with a fourteen-character poem in running
script, dated to the seventh lunar month of the dingchou cyclical
year, and signed Qingteng laoren, old man of the green vine.
7 ¿ in. (18 cm.) long, Japanese wood box
HK$80,000-120,000 US$11,000-15,000
Qingteng Laoren is one of the pseudonyms of the renowned late Ming
scholar, painter, poet and dramatist Xu Wei (1521-1593).
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