Duan inkstone with grooves decoration, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

Duan inkstone with grooves decoration, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

• Image Number: C1F000009N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Studio implements
• Function: Stationery and stationery
• Material: Minerals/Jade Jewelry/Endstone
• Description:
  The square end inkstone is dark gray, and the walls are green with imitation copper rust. The inkstone is decorated with a circle of palindrome on the frame, and the square deep channel ink pool is carved inside, and the center is slightly concave into an inkstone hall. The walls around the inkstone body are carved with square cloud patterns. The upper part is lightly embossed with two symmetrical big eye humanoid animals, with a crown shaped face pattern in the middle. The nose protrudes into a ring. Next to the four beasts’ heads and feet. Inkstone bottom is engraved with three seal characters “suitable for descendants”, and Qianlong poems are engraved on the ring bottom and printed. There are square inkstone boxes with red sandalwood and lotus patterns.