Period:Qing dynasty Production date:18thC
Materials:jade
Technique:
Subjects:landscape bird
Dimensions:Length: 21.50 centimetres
Description:
White jade ink rest of rectangular form, the long sides each curving into a roll on the reverse.
IMG
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Comments:The upper surface is finely decorated with a landscape scene of rocky outcrops and gnarled pines through which a man leads his horse. An auspicious bird swoops down from above hearing a lingzhi fungus in its mouth. Ink rests were used for ink slabs whilst their ends were still wet after grinding. Similar examples in James Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch’ing, New York, 1980, catalogue number 117 for a white jade armrest or ‘ink-bed’ carved with a dragon amid clouds, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Ming Wilson, Chinese Jades, London, 2004, page 67, number 71, for a pair of weights carved wit phoenixes in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Materials:jade
Technique:
Subjects:landscape bird
Dimensions:Length: 21.50 centimetres
Description:
White jade ink rest of rectangular form, the long sides each curving into a roll on the reverse.
IMG
Comments:The upper surface is finely decorated with a landscape scene of rocky outcrops and gnarled pines through which a man leads his horse. An auspicious bird swoops down from above hearing a lingzhi fungus in its mouth. Ink rests were used for ink slabs whilst their ends were still wet after grinding. Similar examples in James Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch’ing, New York, 1980, catalogue number 117 for a white jade armrest or ‘ink-bed’ carved with a dragon amid clouds, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Ming Wilson, Chinese Jades, London, 2004, page 67, number 71, for a pair of weights carved wit phoenixes in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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