ID 861893
Lot 3079 | AN IMPERIALLY INSCRIBED INKSTONE-SHAPED INK CAKE
Estimate value
HKD 180 000 – 250 000
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The ink cake is moulded on one side with two five-clawed dragons emerging from crashing waves, all within an archaistic kui dragon border at the rim. The reverse is inscribed with an imperial poem dated to Qianlong cyclical gengyin year corresponding to 1770, followed by two leisure seals reading bide, 'comparing to virtue’, and langrun, 'bright and lustrous’. The sides are inscribed with a Qianlong six-character mark and another five characters reading Suichu tang xang mo, ‘ink cake stoned in the Pursue One’s Original Ambition Hall’.
6 11/16 in. (17 cm.) long, cloth box
Provenance
Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection
| Historical era: | Qianlong period |
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| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Historical era: | Qianlong period |
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| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
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