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A CARVED ‘DUAN’ INKSTONE

of rectangular form, elegantly carved around the recessed
inkwell with a cluster of orchid blossoms borne on long slender
leaves issuing from a shaped rock, the underside hollowed in
a slope, the smoothly polished stone of a purplish-brown color
with a band of green encircling the sides, Japanese wood box
(2)
Length 6 in., 15.2 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Matsumura Toshiyuki, Edo Period (by repute).
Suichiko-Do, Tokyo (by repute).

$ 4,000-6,000

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1268 1269

AN INSCRIBED ‘FIGURAL’ BLUE INKCAKE, AN INSCRIBED ‘PAVILION ON THE
SIGNED FANG FU MOUNTAIN OF IMMORTALS’ INKCAKE
QING DYNASTY 20TH CENTURY

of circular form, molded to the top with a pictorial scene taken of rectangular form with rounded and scrolled crests at either
from the late Ming woodblock prints Yanzijianchatu [Illustrated end, with mold-impressed scene of a heavenly pavilion and a
scenes of Yanzijian], the reverse with a central medallion trio of scholars playing chess above craggy cli s with dense
enclosing the name of the woodblock prints in seal script, one pine cover, the reverse with impressed inscription yu mo
side with an inscription reading Daqing Jiaqing Fang Fu zhi (‘Imperial Inkcake’), above xianshan louge (‘Pavilion on the
Diameter 4½ in., 11.4 cm Mountain of Immortals’), above a seal, yanyun shujuan, one
PROVENANCE side with molded hanjingtang zhencang (‘Treasured Collection
Pao & Moltke, Toronto. of the Hanjing Hall’), the other side with an apocryphal molded
$ 2,000-3,000 Qianlong mark
Height 6⅞ in., 17.5 cm
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˪⣏㶭▱ㄞ㕡庼墥˫㫦 See catalogue note at .

1269 $ 800-1,200

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