Yung-cheng reign mark Sung-hua stone inkstone in a black lacquer box with painted gold design

Yung-cheng reign mark Sung-hua stone inkstone in a black lacquer box with painted gold design

• Image Number: K1F001565N000000000PAD
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Studio implements
• Function: Stationery
• Material: Minerals/Jade Jewelry/Songhua Stone
• Description:
  Green square inkstone, bottle shaped inkstone, with edges around. ㄇ shaped pool, with wide edges around it. The stone is moist, and the whole body has green natural horizontal lines of different depths. There are traces of red ink on the surface of the inkstone, the same in the pool, and red paint like magenta on the back of the inkstone. The back of the inkstone is edged, and the lower part of the central concave is engraved with a running script: “For the sake of silence, it is to live forever.” In addition, two lines and four characters of seal script square seal are engraved in the shade: “Made in the year of Yongzheng”. The box is a square painted gold paint box, with a child and mother mouth, four corners of which are circular arcs, and the box back has wide edges, with one foot in each corner. Paint chrysanthemums, peonies, cymbidium flowers, grass and slope stones on the cover, paint them with lacquer first, then stick gold foil, and gun cut flowers, leaf veins and slope stones; Today, many gold foils have been peeled off: chrysanthemums have disappeared, peonies and huzi flowers only leave traces of gold foils, and their leaves have also been peeled in many places. There are still traces of gold paint on the edge of the mouth of the mother and child, and the traces of red paint left in the box are very thick.