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A MELON-FORM DUAN INKSTONE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The stone is carved as a lobed melon borne on a leafy, fruiting vine that trails from top to the reverse side. The well is carved to resemble a small melon, juxtaposed to two smaller melons each centred by a green 'eye'. The stone is of a dark purplish-brown colour with a satiny texture, the sides and the underside with areas of the stone's skin.
7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) long, fitted wood box, Japanese wood box
Provenance
Su Zhu An Collection, Kyoto
Exhibited
The Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, SENCHA: Its Beauty and Spirit, Seeking after SEIFU, the purity of mind like a bracing breeze, Osaka, 23 September-3 November 1997, Catalogue, no. 237

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