Duan inkstone with spirit fungus decoration, Song dynasty (960-1279)-China Archive

Image Number: K1F000551N000000000PAC
Dynasty: Song dynasty
Category: Studio implements
Function: Stationery
Material: Minerals/Jade Jewelry/Endstone
Description:
This inkstone is a natural original stone, which has been slightly modified on all sides to form a Ruizhi shape. The inkstone is purple in color, with banana white lines between it. The surface of the inkstone is flat where the ink is received. Eight small ganoderma lucidum are embossed on the inkstone head. The ink pool is at the micro depression of the ganoderma stem, and the back of the inkstone is carved with a Zhidi. Five small ganoderma lucidum are planted on the stem, covered with the back of the inkstone, and a poem made by Emperor Gaozong of Qing Dynasty is engraved below, Regular script: “The rock looks like a laurel, but there is no fragrance. The real name should not be a chapter. It is set 300 paces away in the dark night, and Britain and Britain have seen its light early.”, Title: “Imperial Inscription of the Xia Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Qianlong and 1898”, with two seals: “Bide” and “Langrun”. “Wuxu” is the 43rd year of Qianlong, 1778 AD. This inkstone poem is also recorded in Complete Works of Imperial Poems and Prose of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty (VIII) and Imperial Poems (IV), Volume 55, Page 24.